It seems a tremendous amount of data is lost every year on laptops in airports. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with physical security and your portable computers.   Read more...

SQL Server is a great platform, but there are problems in places. Steve Jones thinks that fixing some issues might be a good investment for Microsoft.  Read more...

How do keep the best programmers? Steve Jones has a few thoughts that might cause you to rethink how you manage your programming stars.  Read more...

Why does the IT industry seem to act and run so differently than many other industries? Steve Jones takes a stab at explaining this.  Read more...

As data professionals, we want to avoid losing data. We won't always be successful, but we can avoid making the easy mistakes.  Read more...

The best at their crafts are usually the most rewarded in sports, but not necessarily in other fields. This week Steve Jones asks if you would like it to be different?  Read more...

Is your IT department outdated? There's a prediction that they won't be around in five years. Steve Jones doesn't agree.  Read more...

Computer vision has been something that researchers have worked on for years. We have no shortage of cameras, and we are starting to see the computing systems behind these devices starting to actually understand what is being seen. That understanding is very valuable. Will we see something similar happening in our SQL Server technologies?  Read more...

IBM's Watson project continues to grow and the latest implementation might be one that affects many of us in our daily lives.  Read more...

Microsoft through its various GUIs tries hard to "protect" users from SQL, but Phil Factor argues that we don't need protection from code. We just need a better way to "document" the syntax.  Read more...

The next version of SQL Server was announced last week and Steve Jones is pleased with the name.  Read more...

When a disaster occurs, the response from your organization isn't always pre-determined. There are times when you might not want to failover to secondary systems, especially if you don't expect the disaster to last long. How do you decide when to fail over?  Read more...

Moving data around can be a challenge as the sizes of our databases grow. Steve Jones talks about some of the challenges and some creative ways you might consider moving data.  Read more...

Do you let your fear drive you in how you work with technology? Steve Jones thinks you should be cautious, but not paralyzed.  Read more...

Steve Jones enjoys his career in technology and hopes that you do as well.   Read more...

With a huge increase in the number of online learning frameworks, Dave Convery wonders how comfortable people are with this new way of polishing their skills.  Read more...

Today Steve Jones looks at the way software affects the world and how we might be worried about how things might change in the future.  Read more...

Tomorrow is the bicentennial SQL Saturday event. SQL Saturday #200 takes place in Philadelphia, and Steve Jones has some thoughts as he travels to the City of Brotherly Love.  Read more...

There isn't a lot of acceptance of Azure from DBAs. Steve Jones talks about some of the advantages of Azure and thinks that we should be working to ensure that our internal systems respond at the same speed as people can get from Azure.  Read more...

Data and software will impact our lives more and more in the future. Steve Jones talks about some of the potential ways in which both of these have changed the world.  Read more...