2024-04-19 (first published: 2020-01-21)
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Editorials
Missing the Office
Steve talks about being back in an office today, at a customer where everyone comes in every day.
2024-04-17
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Kendra’s Top 3 Tips for Working Remotely
A guest editorial today from Kendra has a few tips for working from home.
2024-04-15 (first published: 2020-03-12)
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There's No Free Lunch with Open-source Software
As a member of the PostgreSQL open-source community, I have been following the recent license change by Redis Labes on March 20, 2024. Redis introduced a dual license model, specifically adding the Redis Source Available License (RSAL), which prevents other vendors from providing Redis as a service without a paid subscription from Redis Labs. The […]
2024-04-13
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2024-04-12
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The Code Freeze
Today Steve discusses code freezes, those times when you don't allow changes to be made by developers.
2024-04-10
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2024-04-08 (first published: 2019-08-21)
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To Each Their Own
I recently came back from a trip to Las Vegas. I was privileged to be able to take part in the very first Fabric Community Conference. It was a great event, well attended. BUT... It was in Las Vegas. I am not a fan. First of all, Vegas is just far too noisy for me. […]
2024-04-06
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When is it time for a new job?
Steve asks the question today about when you might think about changing employers. He has some advice for you, whether you're happy or in need of a new position.
2024-04-05
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Under the Bus
Today Steve discusses a disturbing trend, where technical workers are being thrown under the bus by management.
2024-04-03
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Blogs
Check your regions people
Today I was having a nice discussion with some colleagues about Fabric and pricing/licensing...
Using Git Prune–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
As I’ve been working with SQL Saturday and managing changes to events, I’ve accumulated...
Microsoft Purview new data governance features
By James Serra
Starting last week is a rollout of the public preview of a new and...
Forums
Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard
By Stewart "Arturius" Campbell
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Read Only Replica in SQL...
Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in Power BI - Part 1
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in...
Backup of encrypted databases failing
I've had some backups of my encrypted databases failing with the error "BACKUP 'DBName'...
Question of the Day
Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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