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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: December 2018The Year in Review Webinar–Dec 18Join me for our Year in Review Webinar next week, Dec 18, at 4pm GMT. I’ll be joining Kendra and Grant to talk through what happened this year, and make a few predictions for 2019. It should be fun, festive, maybe a bit silly, but a good break in your… Read more 0 comments, 188 reads Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 14 December 2018 The Default Frame for Window FunctionsAnother post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This bites me constantly, and I was reminded of this while watching Kathi talk at #SQLintheCity. When you write a Window function, there is an implicit… Read more 1 comments, 216 reads Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 13 December 2018 Lessons from the Phoenix Project–Leave SlackNot @Slack, but slack time, time when you aren’t buried on a particular project. In the book, The Phoenix Project, the Brent character is the jack of all trades, the one that everyone goes to to fix and solve problems. He gets tasked with important projects and work,… Read more 0 comments, 150 reads Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 12 December 2018 T-SQL Tuesday #109–InfluenceThis month’s T-SQL Tuesday host is Jason Brimhall. He asks everyone to write about influence, which is something that I should know about and think I have, but am somewhat uncomfortable writing about. That being said, here’s my entry this month. Influencing OthersOne of the motivations behind creating… Read more 1 comments, 157 reads Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 12 December 2018 SQL Census–From the Redgate FoundryThe Foundry at Redgate Software is our version of Microsoft Research. Kind of. We tackle some projects that are interesting and might make good products at some point, but we’re looking at the in the investigative phase. You can read about the Foundry here. Some interesting work is taking… Read more 0 comments, 136 reads Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 11 December 2018 Basic Sequences–#SQLNewBloggerAnother post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I haven’t used sequences much in my work, but I ran into a question recently on how they work, so I decided to play with them a bit. Read more 2 comments, 779 reads Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 5 December 2018 SQL in the City is Next WeekNext Wednesday, Dec 12, I’ll be back in the UK with Kathi, Kendra, and Grant for SQL in the City Streamed. You can register today and join us for a set of DevOps talks that will get you to think about ways to better perform database development. For once I… 0 comments, 397 reads Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 4 December 2018 Updating SSMS to 17.9.1I went to download the SSMS v17.9.1 package the other day and saw this: I remember some issues with a C++ redistributable with a SQL Server install (2016?) and decided to just check on this. I really wish that these articles and items were crosslinked, so I could check them… Read more 0 comments, 449 reads Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 3 December 2018 |
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