The Special Cloud
Amazon has built a cloud just for the US government. Will we see more specialized clouds in the future that might let us move some of our data to the cloud?
2011-08-31
128 reads
Editorials
An Investment in Knowledge
Inspired by a quote from Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jones talks about investing in your career.
2011-08-30
263 reads
A Look Back at Apple
With the resignation of Steve Jobs from Apple this week, Steve Jones looks back at his memories of the tech icon.
2011-08-29
109 reads
Specialists or Generalists: Who are best as Developers?
Should we have specialists or generalists working as developers in our companies? A guest editorial today from Mike Angelastro asks the question.
2011-08-29
251 reads
Would You Rather Work for a Strong or Weak Manager?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy asks if you prefer to have a strong manager or weak one, and why.
2011-08-26
187 reads
Keep Data Forever
Today Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with keeping data around a long time and a new archival medium.
2011-08-25
199 reads
Pop Tarts and Hurricanes
Today Steve Jones talks about the relation between hurricanes and poptarts, and why you should be working on your T-SQL skills.
2011-08-24
156 reads
The Talent Crunch
There seems to be no shortage of IT jobs in the US, and Steve Jones reminds us that the shortage is for talented workers, not just workers.
2011-08-23
478 reads
Devil's Advocate
With the one hand, Chris applauds the outstanding work of the SQL Server community, and tentatively raises the other to ask if we're on the cusp of a chance.
2011-08-22
121 reads
Virtual Security
As more and more companies move to virtualized servers, security should be on their minds. Steve Jones talks about that changes that you should consider.
2011-08-22
122 reads
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
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...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
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