This week was the MVP Summit. As was the case for the last couple of years, the event was entirely virtual. We were shown a bunch of new and interesting things by Microsoft. We were able to talk to each other and to the engineers at Microsoft. I'm honored that I've been an MVP and […]
2022-04-02
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Writing notebooks in Azure Data Studio is a great way to keep a number of queries in one place and execute them together. Steve has a way to do this inside a stored procedure.
2022-04-01
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2022-03-30
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There are many ways to work more efficiently, but tracking and saving your work might be one of the best.
2022-03-28
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2022-03-26
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How comfortable are you with your password security? Today Steve asks given some data on the various times it takes to crack passwords.
2022-03-25
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2022-03-23
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CosmosDB is a flexible, powerful database, but is it the best one? Steve has a few thoughts.
2022-03-21
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Last week I attended my first in-person event in over two years. SQLBits, the largest data platform conference in Europe, was a hybrid event and marked the first time many of us met in person in ages. It was a huge success as folks from around the world gathered to learn...and celebrate! I heard several […]
2022-03-19
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2022-03-18
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Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
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One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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