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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Editorials
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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2019-01-16
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Measuring Effectiveness
Being effective is important to Steve. Today he talks about the things you might consider when trying to determine if your group is being effective.
2019-01-15
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Where's that Snippet?
Phil Factor has tried many different ways to remember code and archive old code for reuse, but has yet to find the perfect solution. Does it exist?
2019-01-14
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Do you have a security to-do list?
Security is important, and Steve wonders if any of us have a list of things we do that improve security.
2019-01-11
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Blogs
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...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
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