﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="2.0"><channel><title>SQLServerCentral.com Articles tagged Editorial - WMV</title><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/</link><description>Articles tagged Editorial - WMV posted on SQLServerCentral.com</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>360</ttl><managingEditor>sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)</managingEditor><item><title>Just SQL Auth</title><description><![CDATA[Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68830/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/20</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68830/</link></item><item><title>Easy Licenses</title><description><![CDATA[Software licensing can be complex and confusing. Even in Windows and SQL Server, where hard limits are not enforced, people have problems determining how they should license software. Steve Jones talks about what vendors could do to help us.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68811/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/18</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68811/</link></item><item><title>The Conference Benefit</title><description><![CDATA[Why attend a conference? After the PASS Summit and SQL Connections, Steve Jones shares a few thoughts about the benefits of attending a conference for employees.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68789/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/17</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68789/</link></item><item><title>Testing at Scale</title><description><![CDATA[It seems that many companies don't have the luxury of working with a variety of hardware configurations to test their architecture before deploying their applications. Some of the issues involve time and some involve tools. Steve Jones has an idea that could help with the latter today.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68770/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/16</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68770/</link></item><item><title>Is C# Better?</title><description><![CDATA[This Friday Steve Jones has a poll for the programmers and hybrid DBAs out there. If you work with code, why do you use C#? Or why not?<!-- Exceptional DBA -->
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Steve Jones asks why we might not have a better way to install updates, maybe even helping us decide if we need them.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68713/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/11</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68713/</link></item><item><title>Is Unit Testing Important?</title><description><![CDATA[Testing our applications is important, but at what level do we need to test? Steve Jones talks about unit testing today, and wonders if this is prevalent for SQL Server developers.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68705/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/10</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68705/</link></item><item><title>A Bad Litmus Test</title><description><![CDATA[A litmus test is a way of determining your answer to a question based on a single issue or response. Steve Jones sees this as a bad idea, especially when looking to hire technical people.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68669/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/09</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68669/</link></item><item><title>Is The PASS Summit Worth It?</title><description><![CDATA[Steve Jones has attended the PASS Summit annually, and found value. But for this Friday's poll, did you find value this week? Or have you in the past? Let others know.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68694/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/06</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68694/</link></item><item><title>Why Is It So Complicated?</title><description><![CDATA[One of the very common things that is needed in SQL Server is performing a restore of a database. It's also one of the most important things that needs to take place. So why isn't this a simpler process? Steve Jones wonders why we can't make this a simpler process.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68664/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/02</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68664/</link></item><item><title>Sharepoint Growth is Good</title><description><![CDATA[Sharepoint is a product that many IT people despise, but it's a popular seller for Microsoft. Steve Jones thinks that Sharepoint's growth is a good thing for DBAs as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68609/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/28</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68609/</link></item><item><title>Low Hanging Fruit</title><description><![CDATA[An open letter asks Google to change their default protocol to be more secure. Are there things that we might want to do inside SQL Server to make it more secure by default? Any low hanging fruit that would help the platform?]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68592/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/26</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68592/</link></item><item><title>The Value of Experience</title><description><![CDATA[What type of previous experience makes a good DBA? Is it necessary to have other experience? Steve Jones asks the question in today's Friday poll.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68559/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/23</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68559/</link></item><item><title>What Do We Want from PASS?</title><description><![CDATA[With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68556/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/22</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68556/</link></item><item><title>Being Around Smart People is Exciting</title><description><![CDATA[Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68528/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/20</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68528/</link></item><item><title>Ask SQLServerCentral</title><description><![CDATA[A new feature is available on SQLServerCentral, and Steve Jones talks a little about how it fits in with your strategy here at the site. Visit ask.sqlservercentral.com and let us know what you think.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68524/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/19</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68524/</link></item><item><title>The Future of Bits</title><description><![CDATA[Feel like making a prediction this Friday? Steve Jones looks to the future  with information workers and a knowledge economy. 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