2019-09-14
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Editorials
Staying Focused
Finding the zone, working in the flow, these are the most efficient times for us, but they can be hard to find.
2019-09-13
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The State of DevOps Report for 2019
It seems like just a few weeks ago that I went over the 2018 results with Gene Kim. That was an exciting few weeks for me, running over the report in prep and then having the opportunity to host a webinar with Gene Kim. Exciting times, but it's been almost a year and the 2019 […]
2019-09-12
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Business Pressures
The business pressures can often change how we work, or even how we build our software. A few notes on Github from Steve Jones.
2019-09-10 (first published: 2015-08-12)
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The Scientific Method: a call to action
Gail Shaw issues a rallying call for the SQL Community to adopt the Scientific Method when investigating and reporting on SQL Server behavior.
2019-09-09 (first published: 2015-05-25)
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Your chance to speak at PASS Summit
When I decided to switch careers about 25 years ago, I had no idea how far I would go in tech. I just wanted to leave the profession for which I had trained and become a developer. My goal was to make the switch by the end of 1998. It actually happened in the summer […]
2019-09-07
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Turn Out the Lights
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at the costs associated with our behavior.
2019-09-06 (first published: 2016-01-18)
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The Ongoing Costs of Building Software
There are lots of costs to building your own software, which Steve Jones notes might not be what you want to spend over time.
2019-09-05 (first published: 2016-01-13)
309 reads
20 Years of Compare
When we started SQLServerCentral, there were originally 7 of us. We all decided to "invest" $50 to get the site going. With this seed money, we paid for a VM that hosted both SQL Server and IIS. This was enough money to run the site for 6+ months, and we set about building an online […]
2019-09-04
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2019-09-03 (first published: 2015-08-25)
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Blogs
Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or...
Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
By Steve Jones
One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume)...
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By James Serra
Announced at Microsoft Ignite last week were some new product features related to the...
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Question of the Day
The Hash Join II
Which of these inputs is the smaller input to a hash join?
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