One or Many Databases
When you have multiple clients in your application, do you want one or many databases?
2022-06-08
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Editorials
Are Cubes Dead?
Is the idea of an Analysis Services cube something that is no longer relevant for modern data analysis? Steve thinks it might be.
2022-06-06
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The Nightmare Letter
The GDPR may bring nightmare letters like the one linked to from the editorial.
2022-06-03 (first published: 2018-03-28)
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Production Subsets
Working with data in development or test environments can be challenging. This week Steve Jones asks how you might deal with the volume of data and whether you like subsets.
2022-06-01 (first published: 2014-08-22)
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Audit systems: a good idea or a mess to maintain?
Audit systems can be a good idea, but they can also be a mess to maintain.
2022-05-30 (first published: 2018-02-27)
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2022-05-28
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2022-05-27 (first published: 2018-02-08)
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It's Not Yours
We may talk about our databases, but hopefully most of us know we don't own the data.
2022-05-25 (first published: 2018-01-17)
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It's the Engineers
The staff that build your systems are more important than your choice of technology.
2022-05-23 (first published: 2018-01-08)
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Moving on but not far
During my technical career, I’ve changed companies several times. I even worked as an independent contractor for three years. One thing I have never done before was switch departments and roles within one company. That’s about to change in a couple of weeks as I move from Simple Talk Editor and DevOps Advocate in Marketing […]
2022-05-21
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Can You Let Go of Determinism
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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