A Remote Work Guide
This week Steve talks a bit about working remotely, which is something more of us are doing these days.
2020-04-24
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Editorials
2020-04-23
182 reads
The Next Data Decade
There are lots of predictions that people make at the start of every year. I've written quite a few over the years, but in 2020 I decided not to make any. After all, there are plenty of other people making them. One person that did make some was Jeff Clarke, COO of Dell. He wrote […]
2020-04-22
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2020-04-21
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The SQL Community Steps up in Time of Need
Healthcare workers are some of the many heroes working bravely in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. To protect themselves and their patients, they must wear face masks during their entire shifts. This causes a great deal of ear irritation, so a strap was designed to make wearing the masks easier and alleviate pressure on […]
2020-04-18
137 reads
The Conferences of the Future
With many conferences going virtual, Steve wonders what the future holds.
2020-04-17
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2020-04-16
129 reads
BYOD Fingerprint Concerns
Fingerprints provide some security, but a research suggests not necessarily much. Steve has a few thoughts.
2020-04-15
85 reads
Teams That Ship
Running software teams isn't as easy as it may seem, and the way you manage a startup is different than a mature organization. Steve has a few comments on the process one angel investor implements.
2020-04-14
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2020-04-13
185 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers