For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones talks about a fundamental architectural decision for your software. Do you want central control or a series of distributed processes, each one self-aware, and able to act on its own.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you handle audit data in your environment. Do you regularly analyze the data? Or do you wait for something to go wrong before you check the data.   Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones has a disaster recovery poll. When you have a true disaster, often there are multiple things that go wrong and cause a cascading failure. Is this common, let us know what your experience is this Friday.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones asks you if you want more knobs for SQL Server or less? It's a debate that balances the need for the DBA to know more with the resources Microsoft spends to build better tuning into the product.  Read more...

Today Steve Jones asks how you handle those passwords across time for backups in this week's Friday poll.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones wonders what types of bugs you find in software. Are there more prevalent because of design or coding?  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones asks about your job and if you get to pick the things you work on or is most of your time assigned to tasks by someone else?  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones has a poll about which SQL Servers might impress you. Is there a company or installation that you think would really showcase the power and scalability of SQL Server?  Read more...

Temporary indexes can speed up processes that run periodically in your applications. This Friday Steve Jones asks how many of you use temporary indexes and how you do so.  Read more...

Steve Jones has a poll about your career and how you view it today.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones asks what you would like to see in Standard Edition. Is there one feature that would make a big difference to you?  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones asks you about the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server, and what should the distinction be?  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones asks what impact the Sarbanes-Oxley act has had on your job. After nearly a decade since the act was passed, is it intrusive in the workplace or just another part of your job.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones asks for who's got the best bragging rights. Let us know this Friday just much RAM is a lot.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones talks about the commitments and contracts that you may have with your customers. Do you know what they are? Is the contract explicitly spelled out? Take this Friday's poll and share your answer with everyone else.  Read more...

Interviews can be strange for many reasons, often because interviewers are not well prepared to evaluate candidates. This Friday Steve Jones asks you what weird things you might have encountered in an interview when someone is asking you questions.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones asks how you track uptime. Does your scheduled maintenance count against your metrics?  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones explores archived data. Can you restate past results or change old data? This week Steve Jones asks how data professionals feel about this and what guidance they give to their customers.  Read more...

Would you want to manage a VLDB? Or write the code for an application that uses one? This Friday Steve Jones asks the question of you.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones has a DR poll. He asks what might be more important to you in a disaster and why.  Read more...