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
103 reads
Do you know how to answer normalization questions in an interview? Steve Jones gives you a few ideas and recommends you brush up on your knowledge.
2022-05-20 (first published: 2018-01-11)
649 reads
It seems that many people who choose NoSQL platforms still need relational features. Steve speculates on why.
2022-05-18
154 reads
2022-05-16 (first published: 2018-01-15)
289 reads
This week I was honored to be able to attend, and present a session at, SQLDay in Wroclaw Poland. I fell in love with Poland the very first time I attended this event, so I look forward to any time I can go again. This year, Pavel Potasinski presented the keynote: The Evolution of the […]
2022-05-14
125 reads
2022-05-13
1,430 reads
Steve feels it is not only important to keep your word, but communicate clearly what you mean to others.
2022-05-11
357 reads
Interviews are always a challenge, but sometimes there are crazy questions. We can do better, especially in terms of how we evaluate the answer to a question.
2022-05-09
542 reads
You can find new employment with a little work and choose the best job for you.
2022-05-07
137 reads
2022-05-06
80 reads
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
Assume preview features are enabled. See possible answers