It's a holiday in the US and Steve Jones takes a day off with a blooper reel for the editorial.  Read more...

It's a holiday in the US and Steve Jones takes a day off with a blooper reel for the editorial.  Read more...

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Steve Jones hopes you have a wonderful Memorial Day and brings you a blooper reel to pass the time if you are one of those people stuck working today.  Read more...

A hardware problem disrupts a culinary algorithm.  Read more...

Steve Jones has a blooper reel for today that shows some of the things that happen when shooting a daily podcast.  Read more...

Enjoy the podcast blooper reel from the last few months.   Read more...

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TJay Belt has a great story of the nightmare DBA situation.  Read more...

After intense negotiations with CA and Microsoft, the founding sponsors of PASS, SQLServerCentral has agreed to take over the organization.  Read more...

It’s time. After years of building this site to work with SQL Server, I sold it to Red Gate Software. Part of that transaction meant that I had to work for Red Gate for a period of time afterwards. I think I’ve done a good job in that time, but I don’t own this site anymore, and can’t compete with it contractually.  Read more...

A neat little trick you can access in SQL Server Management Studio 2008.  Read more...

Too many authors in the field of relational theory have neglected the concept of Cardinal Reciprocity. This can cause a number of subtle problems with database design in terms of its derivability, redundancy, and consistency. . Increasingly, this little-understood aspect of relational theory, that emphasises the cardinality of the attributes of tuples in a relation and the reciprocity with isomorphic foreign key restraints, is becoming a hot forum topic.  Read more...

There's been a lot of bad press about 'corporate jets' in the news over the past year. Not that planes themselves have issues, but rather many questions about whether corporations are spending shareholder dollars appropriately. It's not a simple topic, but clearly there did seem to be a lack of awareness about how those kinds of things would be perceived in difficult financial times.  Read more...

Phil shows how 'CROSS APPLY' can be useful for writing thank-you letters or thinking of excuses as to why your project has failed....  Read more...

With all the bailouts being requested in the US, where is the money for DBAs who need it?  Read more...

With all the bailouts being requested in the US, where is the money for DBAs who need it?  Read more...

With all the bailouts being requested in the US, where is the money for DBAs who need it?  Read more...

With all the bailouts being requested in the US, where is the money for DBAs who need it?  Read more...

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A hardware problem disrupts a culinary algorithm.  Read more...

The holiday classic updated for SQLServerCentral.  Read more...

After intense negotiations with CA and Microsoft, the founding sponsors of PASS, SQLServerCentral has agreed to take over the organization.  Read more...