http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Editorial posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Do the people that build SQL Server really work with it? Steve Jones shares a short story from a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63143/2008/05/20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63143/How can you find good employees? Steve Jones offers a few tips on what has worked for him in the past.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63083/2008/05/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63083/Steve Jones talks about two competing priorities for many people that start at a new job and asks which one you value more in this Friday poll.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63011/2008/05/16http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63011/Are IT people wired for musicianship?http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63073/2008/05/15http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63073/Encrypting data is the easy part of dealing with encryption and databases. Steve Jones talks about some of the other, more difficult, issues you must handle.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63080/2008/05/14http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63080/The CLR was one of the highly touted additions to SQL Server 2005, and one of the reasons for its long development cycle. Steve Jones comments on why it hasn't been that widely used.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63081/2008/05/13http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63081/Steve Jones asks for some opinions on how to approach the new timeframe of software releases.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62774/2008/05/12http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62774/This Friday's poll asks about one of Steve Jones' favorite activities.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62946/2008/05/09http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62946/New technologies often bring with them lots of new data. Steve Jones talks about some changes that we might see with new RFID technology being deployed in some industries.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63010/2008/05/08http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63010/Microsoft made a sizeable big for Yahoo and Steve Jones talks about one of the more interesting aspects of that bid that didn't receive much press.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63009/2008/05/07http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63009/As DBAs we should be very detail oriented, but Steve Jones talks about some challenges with keeping up with your tasks and projects and some software that might help.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62953/2008/05/06http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62953/Steve Jones thinks that programmers should be able to negotiate any deal they can and Joel Spolsky has no reason to be upset.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63001/2008/05/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/63001/How often do you worry about your database size and free space? Steve Jones asks how you administer your SQL Server database space this Friday.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62792/2008/05/02http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62792/Steve Jones examines what big is these days and a few examples of what the largest database people in the world deal with.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62952/2008/05/01http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62952/Steve Jones still thinks there is a lot of value in books, both fiction and non-fiction, but he's looking at e-Readers, specifically the Kindle from Amazon.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62941/2008/04/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62941/The DBA's Mantra: All data readers are evil. Steve Jones talks about a proposed corollary that might be appropriate to ensure security.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62893/2008/04/29http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62893/How should we build tools? Should they be easy to use? Or does it make sense to have some things hard to do so that only experienced used choose them. Steve Jones comments on usability and the implications of your choices.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62878/2008/04/28http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62878/SQL Server allows some interesting index behavior and there's been some debate over whether it makes sense or not. This Friday Steve Jones asks if you have a reason for this.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62891/2008/04/25http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62891/Steve Jones looks at how SQL Server is in use at the Internal Revenue Service.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62880/2008/04/24http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62880/The bimonthly update on energy news from Steve Jones, focusing mostly this month on wind power.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62879/2008/04/23http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62879/Some of the features that seem to make LINQ very attractive also seem to require granting table level access to data, something Steve Jones doesn't like.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62872/2008/04/22http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62872/What happens if you allow people to be in control of their own computers? Are we putting the inmates in charge of the asylum?http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62816/2008/04/21http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62816/How does the job market look this year for DBAs? Steve Jones asks the SQL Server community for their thoughts on the current employment outlook.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62791/2008/04/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62791/Steve Jones is up in the Redmond area at Microsoft's HQ looking for SQL Server developers.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62827/2008/04/17http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62827/The other major database vendors have been making investments by purchasing database related companies, but what has Microsoft done?http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62793/2008/04/16http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62793/A develop should be a glass-half-full kind of guy, at least according to Steve Jones. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62820/2008/04/15http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62820/What is going on with all this production data? Steve Jones talks about the need to manage data growth and is it really worth the resources.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62785/2008/04/14http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62785/Tracking your salary over time might be a fun, or not so fun, endeavor for a DBA. However should anyone else know what your trend is? Steve Jones asks the question this week.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62668/2008/04/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62668/Steve Jones talks about some research from Dr. Cross, a professor from his alma mater, into social networks and how work gets done in a company.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62781/2008/04/10http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62781/Is SQL Server keeping up with MySQL or is it the other way around. Steve Jones comments on a few of the differences in the platforms.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62770/2008/04/09http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/62770/