Managed Instance Impressions
Today Steve asks about your view of Managed Instance. He has found many people like the offering quite a bit.
2024-05-27
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Editorials
The Costs and Rewards of Speaking
Steve has had a good time sharing knowledge with others at events. He gives you a few thoughts on why you might join him at a future event.
2024-05-24
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Invisible Downtime
Steve has a few thoughts on invisible downtime, a term he had never heard until recently.
2024-05-22
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Kubernetes is Cool, But ...
Steve has a few thoughts on Kubernetes and how much data professionals should care about the technology.
2024-05-20
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Realities of Predictive Analysis
Or for short, “Why you have to play the game” “Don't tell me the odds”, cried out Han Solo just before doing something that seemed impossible. How on Coruscant did he do that? Well, as a certain director said about a certain floating door in a galaxy we all call home. ”It was in the […]
2024-05-18
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The Evolving DBA
Steve thinks the DBA job is evolving and we will always need people to manage data.
2024-05-17 (first published: 2019-12-16)
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2024-05-15 (first published: 2019-11-12)
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Crazy Interviews
Today Steve has a few thoughts about some of the nightmare interview processes tech workers are going through.
2024-05-13
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Honeybee Swarms
I love honeybees. This will be my seventh year as an amateur beekeeper, and aside from family or data, there are few other topics that I could easily spend an afternoon talking to you about. They’re amazing creatures. This past winter I had to move my beehives temporarily to the apiary of a friend. With […]
2024-05-12 (first published: 2024-05-11)
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Multiple Display Productivity
How many monitors do you need? Steve notes that having multiple ones seems to be a standard these days for tech workers. Do more make you more productive? Answer the poll today.
2024-05-10
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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
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
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On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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