2019-01-29
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Editorials
Doing the Right Thing
From the time you rise in the morning until you close your eyes at night, your day is filled with thousands of small decisions, many that you don’t even think about. For each decision that you make, there is a probably a good choice and a poor choice available. Most of the time, the good […]
2019-01-28
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2019-01-28
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Your Recovery Time
Disaster recovery is one of those situations that we plan for and hope we never experience. Are you prepared?
2019-01-25
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Fast Enough
The RDBMS works great for many situations, but is it ever fast enough to meet all your needs?
2019-01-24
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Faster Cloud Warehouses
Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets some improvements, and Steve has a few comments.
2019-01-23
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2019-01-22
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2019-01-21
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Versatile or Jack of all trades
Do you consider multi-skills useful; or just one with mastery in it?
2019-01-21
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2019-01-17
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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