Human frailty and the custodianship of data
Until you open the box your data is, like Schrödinger's cat, both safe and breached.
2019-11-16
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Editorials
Agile Job Descriptions
Steve ends his week of career thoughts with a look at the job descriptions that we often use to decide if we want to apply for a job.
2019-11-15
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Data Science, BI, and Reports
Business Intelligence and Data Science are linked, and complementary. As Steve notes, both can help your organization make better decisions based on data.
2019-11-14
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Micro Credentials
Today Steve talks about a new way of achieving some certification and education from Microsoft.
2019-11-13
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2019-11-11
346 reads
A Big Week for the Data Platform
Steve highlights a few items from a busy Microsoft and SQL Server news week.
2019-11-09
234 reads
The Network Bottleneck
Computer networks are critical for our work, but if they get clogged with new types of data, we might have a problem.
2019-11-08
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2019-11-07
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Predictions for PASS
Steve is missing the PASS opening keynote, but he has a few predictions for the day.
2019-11-06
166 reads
Logging Tables
Today Steve Jones looks at the need to log data from an application or process. Are there good and bad ways to design the structures to log information?
2019-11-05 (first published: 2015-09-25)
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Blogs
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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