Looking Back
Today Steve talks about retrospectives and how we learn and grow as software professionals.
2022-08-24 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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Editorials
When Is Technology Good Enough?
Technology advances, sometimes beyond what we need sometimes. Steve asks when things are good enough.
2022-08-22
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The Case for Patching
Recently I was testing a feature in SQL Server on 2017 and 2019. There was supposed to be an improvement across versions, but I didn't see it. Then I realized that I was on SQL Server 2019 CU 2 on my laptop, and the current CU is 17. I took a few minutes to download […]
2022-08-20
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How Hard is Kubernetes?
Mercedes has taken advantage of containers and Kubernetes to build knowledge in their staff. This investment helps them adapt and change their technology to meet the needs of the business.
2022-08-19
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DBA to Data Engineer
A title change can come with a salary bump in some cases, but you might need to work to achieve both of those. Steve has a few ideas today.
2022-08-17
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Reducing Debt and Increasing Security
DevOps is often thought of as bringing more features to customers, but it can also help security.
2022-08-15
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SQL Standard Confusion
The whole universe, the well-guarded people—may they all query databases together in a single language!
2022-08-13
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DevOps is Mostly About People
Steve says the secret to DevOps is teamwork, which means that people matter. The tools help, but the humans determine the success level.
2022-08-12
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2022-08-10 (first published: 2017-08-09)
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Look Beyond What You See
One of the sales managers at Redgate Software posted an origin story about how he came to work at Redgate Software. It's an interesting story, and while I don't work in sales or have the same origin story, I don't know that I could have seen the place I'm in now early in my career. […]
2022-08-08
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Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
Forums
Issue with CPU Affinity Configuration on a SQL Server VM with 30 vCPUs
Hello , I'm having an issue with a SQL Server VM that has 30...
What is the best index strategy for a table that gets truncated?
Hi everyone My SSIS package does a bulk insert of csv files into a...
Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers