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Steve Jones is the editor of SQLServerCentral.com and visits a wide variety of data related topics in his daily editorial. Steve has spent years working as a DBA and general purpose Windows administrator, primarily working with SQL Server since it was ported from Sybase in 1990. You can follow Steve on Twitter at twitter.com/way0utwest
Archives: July 2007
I actually started writing an article on this, but it's been sidetracked with travel and other stuff. However I do mean to get back to it at some point. In the meantime, Jamie Thomson went ahead and wrote a nice entry on Business Intelligence, what is it and what is…Read more
I've looked at the daily newsletter for a year now and I've wondered about the table of contents. It seems so small and plain that I've been wanting to change it, but I wasn't sure what made sense. Then earlier this week someone suggested reordering the "Users that need help"… Read more
Quite a few complaints on the QOD section from last week, mostly justified. A couple I had to defend, which is always tough. I have a fairly thick skin on the editorials, but for some reason the QODs tend to annoy me more and I get defensive. So I need… Read more
I'm not big on beta testing, or at least haven't been for a number of
years because I can't afford the instability. VPC has helped and I
actually loaded up SS2K8 to do some early looking awhile back, but for
the most part I'm not into testing other people's unpolished… Read more
It's interesting being at a software company, especially one that's
building on another platform. I've never done this before, having
worked for companies outside technology building their own platforms
and then JD Edwards, building software, but their own platform for
companies to use. Red Gate, of which I sort of… Read more
Lots of debate and disagreement on my recommendation to wait for SQL
Server 2008 instead of upgrading to SQL Server 2005 now. What's funny
is that I wrote the recommendation a few weeks ago and the day before I
scheduled it to release, MS announced a Feb date for 2008. Read more
Just when I was about to start a pool for the release date, Microsoft announced today it will release on Feb 27, 2008.
With only one CTP out there, and numerous changes I heard about at
TechEd that haven't been included, they must be fairly close to getting
this thing… Read more
Despite my casual approach to the editorials and my job, this is still
something of a business and Red Gate wants to find ways to engage
people more. During a discussion today, everything was out there:
pidcasts, videocasts, RSS feeds, and more.
Not sure where this will go, but the… Read more
More coming next week in editorials and already a note on the site, but support for both SQL Server 2000 SP3a and SQL Server 2005 RTM ends on Tuesday. What does this mean? Well when support ends, at least mainstream support, you can't make free calls on it. So if… Read more
I wonder what you think of this: video shorts. I've gottne the Lockergnome newsletters for years and they've proven interesting enough for me to skim them every few days. I noticed Chris had started videos when I was checking the podcast list on iTunes and these seem kind of… Read more
One of the suggestions I saw today was to add blogs to the user profile on the site and not just email and IM. I think it's a great suggestion, but unfortunately I'm in a lockdown for the most part. The new site beta should come out next week and… Read more
I wrote an article recently on the Journey To Katmai, looking at some of the new features that are coming in SQL Server 2008. I've actually got a second part almost done, so I'm trying to learn more about this next version of the platform to finish it. From what… Read more
Most people I know tend to work in one of two places consistently: work or home. So they've built a setup that allows them to comfortably get things done in either location. I'm not so different in that I work at my desk downstairs most of the time during the… Read more
This is pretty cool, a, earthquake test for Project Black Box from Sun. They take one of their systems to a University in CA that has a platform that can simulate an earthquake. It fares pretty well, and I think this is an interesting model. I think lots of facilities… Read more
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