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A series of episodes that look at databases and the world from a data professional's viewpoint. Written and recorded by Steve Jones, editor of SQLServerCentral and The Voice of the DBA.
I remember getting started on SQL Server and trying to upskill myself in the mid-1990s. At that time, my employer was running a SQL Server 4...
Many of us working with databases know the problems of a single point of failure. We build HA/DR technologies into a lot of systems precisel...
While talking to a customer a few weeks ago, they mentioned that they used Contained Availability Groups (CAG) everywhere. They also said th...
While working with a customer recently, I heard this sentence: a tool is better than a script. The reference was that this customer preferre...
The AI LLM boom seems to show no sign of slowing down. Each time I think we've reached some level of crazy use or predictions, things take a...
Recently I saw an interesting article , saying that someone could build a general purpose coding agent in 131 lines of Python code. That's a...
Every database platform has some strengths and weaknesses. Some more than others. I caught this site (NSFW) from Erik Darling , and it made...
In the last year I've seen a lot of statements about data and sovereignty between countries. While there have been concerns in the past, the...
One of my colleagues wrote a great post about DBAs and developers , about how a DBA's pushback on bad code isn't to be difficult, it's becau...
There was a post on X recently from a founder in the EU about an engineer using Claude and ChatGPT to build a feature. I am not sure how tru...
It's always interesting to me when I give product feedback to engineers at Redgate on their demos. Quite often they've built a feature that...
Recently, I saw a graph about making decisions that showed the impact of both reversibility and consequences. Here is an example of such a g...
Years ago I was giving a talk on software development and asked the audience how long it takes to review a PR that has 10 lines changed. Ans...
SQL Server Central has been a great success over the last 25 years. We've helped a lot of people improve their careers with the Microsoft Da...
One of the challenges of AI-assisted coding agents is that they tend to produce A LOT of code. Even in refactoring or migration changes, the...
We do a lot of research at Redgate Software , often contacting customers or Ambassadors and asking questions, getting feedback, listening to...
I wrote a blog about sitting at LHR recently and watching planes take off. That's been a fun thing for me to do when I'm stuck at the airpor...
When I was young and needed to learn about something, I had to go to a library or a bookstore to get information. I often started by looking...
A few weeks ago I was in Bletchley Park , at the facility where the Allies decoded and broke many of the German Nazi messages in World War I...
Recently I was working with a customer that is trying to smooth out their database development process. They noted that a lot of changes ten...
I saw an interesting LinkedIn post on Kyler Murray and how he goes about approaching the game of American football. I don't know if this mem...
We had a Simple Talks podcast recently where we discussed roll forward vs roll back. You can watch the episode and listen to our thoughts, b...
I have the opportunity to work with a variety of customers on their database systems, often with the focus on how they can build and deploy...
A series of episodes that look at databases and the world from a data professional's viewpoint. Written and recorded by Steve Jones, editor...
I remember listening to an interview with Rick Reilly in the mid 2000s. He was the back page columnist for Sports Illustrated for years as w...
The Advocates at Redgate Software had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward or back from the point...
A series of episodes that look at databases and the world from a data professional's viewpoint. Written and recorded by Steve Jones, editor...
Many of us know that testing our code is important. The adoption of unit testing by many software application developers as a normal course...
Why do we reboot machines when something goes wrong? I'm sure all have done it, and I would guess quite a few of you have found situations w...
This is part of a few memories from the founders of SQL Server Central, celebrating 25 years of operation this month. We did photoshoots at...
Many of you reading this have a number of years working with technology. You might have 1 year or 20 years, but you've likely grown and lear...
This is part of a few memories from the founders of SQL Server Central, celebrating 25 years of operation this month. When we started SQL Se...
I tend to be fairly careful with data, especially data on this site. When we started the site, we were worried about potential issues and wo...
I remember getting a job at a startup in the Denver Tech Center. This was shortly after SQL Server 7 was released, with a marketing campaign...
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There have been a lot of features added to the SQL Server platform over the years. Several of these features let us perform functions that a...
The oldest article we have on the site is Tame Those Strings! Part 4 - Numeric Conversions , by me. It's dated 2001-04-18, though I think th...
I was reading Andy Pavlo's end-of-year review of the database world . He's done this for a number of years, and there are links to previous...
AI is everywhere, and if you spend any amount of time looking for answers on the Internet to your coding challenges, you've likely encounter...
There's concern about the future of AI and how it may affect jobs and employment for the masses. I see plenty of people on both sides of the...
I've had the fortunate, or maybe unfortunate, experience of being thrown into a few jobs with no training. At a couple of my bartending jobs...
When I was at the Small Data 2025 conference , one of the speakers was talking about their work with AI technologies. This person uses it a...
JSON seems to be everywhere these days. Many application developers like it across all sorts of languages, C#, JAVA, Python, and more. They...
I came across a post recently on the Microsoft Fabric blog about the evolution of SSIS 2025 ..I hadn't heard much about SSIS in SQL Server 2...
I ran across a post that discusses what makes you a senior engineer (via Brent Ozar ). The main point of the post is that there is a core sk...
Recently, I was discussing AI with a friend, and they asked me to name a great success of using AI to build software. I've tried a few thing...
Security has been a constant concern for many IT professionals over the years. Many of us are trying to implement better security controls,...
It's the beginning of the year, and some of you likely have today off. But plenty of you are at work, moving slowly through this Friday at t...
I ran across a tweet (are they still tweets?) on X/Twitter that was titled: how to ruin yourself . It had these items, which seem to be comi...
Most of you reading this are likely technology professionals of some sort. You might be a software developer in C# or a DBA or a manager of...