Old, but stable
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know about the older versions you are running in your production environments. Are you still using SQL Server 2000?
2012-03-09
181 reads
Editorials
Scaling Out
Steve Jones likes Service Broker as a scale out technology, but it hasn't caught on. He thinks more people should take a look at this technology and implement it in places where it fits well.
2012-03-08
186 reads
Data Gravity
Does data have gravity? Will the law affect how applications are built and deployed? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2012-03-07
139 reads
Zettabyte
Today we have an editorial originally published on Mar 13, 2007 that is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. This one looks at all the world's data.
2012-03-06
193 reads
Code Scanning
Today Steve Jones talks about code scanning and the analysis that tools can do for us today.
2012-03-05
199 reads
Data Compression Double Take
A lot has been written about the potential performance benefits of SQL Server data compression; but hard performance data? Not so much.
2012-03-05
267,356 reads
High Availability Upgrades
Today Steve Jones has a poll about the new AlwaysOn feature in SQL Server 2012. Is it worth the upgrade for your company?
2012-03-02
263 reads
Data Compression Double Take
A lot has been written about the potential performance benefits of SQL Server data compression; but hard performance data? Not so much.
2012-03-01
337 reads
Use the 4th Dimension
Today Steve Jones talks about the conflicting demands of home and work and how you can reconcile the requirements of both.
2012-03-01
198 reads
The Cloud is good for your career
Is the cloud good for your career? Steve Jones thinks so, and gives you a few reasons you might want to learn more about it.
2012-02-29
266 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
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SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
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Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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