﻿<?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</title><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/</link><description>Articles tagged Editorial 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/articles/Editorial/68827/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/20</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68827/</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/articles/Editorial/68800/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/19</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68800/</link></item><item><title>Speed Phreaks</title><description><![CDATA[A guest editorial from Phil Factor looks at the Speed Phreak competition that has been taking place recently and is quite popular. Read about the inspiration for the competition and why you might want to participate.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68792/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/18</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68792/</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/articles/Editorial/68786/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/17</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68786/</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/articles/Editorial/68767/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/16</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68767/</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?]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68747/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/13</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68747/</link></item><item><title>Consolidating Again and Again and Again</title><description><![CDATA[Virtualization is touted as a great way to save money, but it's a one time event. Once you've consolidated a server, you can't do it again. However consolidation isn't necessarily the same and Steve Jones tells us why.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68730/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/12</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68730/</link></item><item><title>A Better Way To Install Updates</title><description><![CDATA[The decisions to install service packs and cumulative updates is often confusing to new DBAs. Many of them install every update, often without a good reason. 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/articles/Editorial/68588/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/11</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68588/</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/articles/Editorial/68586/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/10</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68586/</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/articles/Editorial/68666/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/09</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68666/</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.<!-- Exceptional DBA -->
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]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68554/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/23</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68554/</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/articles/Editorial/68552/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/22</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68552/</link></item><item><title>Data and Customer Service</title><description><![CDATA[Businesses are always looking to collect data on their customers. However when they are fgiven this data, there is a level of trust from the consumer that is expected of the business. Guest editor John Magnabosco talks about the need for database professionals to take care that we are honoring this trust. ]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68466/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/21</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68466/</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/articles/Editorial/68519/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/20</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68519/</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/articles/Editorial/68518/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/19</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68518/</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. Answer this Friday poll and give us your guess about the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68401/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/16</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68401/</link></item><item><title>Afraid of Help</title><description><![CDATA[Is it hard for technology workers to ask for help? Or accept it? We seem to often be the type of people that want to solve problems and fix things on our own. Is that a problem? Steve Jones thinks that we should sometimes put aside our pride and get things done.<!-- Free “SQL Server Tacklebox” eBook -->
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