Managing Risk
Evaluating risk is something we do every day. Steve Jones talks a bit about using this to make ourselves better.
2009-04-06
895 reads
Articles
Manners
In dealing with other professionals, you would like to think most people have good manners. Steve Jones looks to remind us this should apply on the Internet as well.
2009-04-05
59 reads
Manners
In dealing with other professionals, you would like to think most people have good manners. Steve Jones looks to remind us this should apply on the Internet as well.
2009-04-05
72 reads
Manners
In dealing with other professionals, you would like to think most people have good manners. Steve Jones looks to remind us this should apply on the Internet as well.
2009-04-05
52 reads
Error Handling in SSIS
New author Jack Corbett brings us a look at a way of finding out what caused your error in Integration Services.
2009-04-03 (first published: 2008-04-21)
44,627 reads
Re-size TempDB files
Managing TempDB can be a bit tricky at times. Most people know how to increase the size, but what about reducing it? New author Amar Pogaku brings us two techniques for shrinking tempdb.
2009-04-03
28,562 reads
Congratulations to Grant Fritchey
He was awarded MVP status today, no joke, for his work in the community. According to his blog , it’s not a joke. And it shouldn’t be. Between the excellent book he wrote on execution plans, his work for PASS, and regular contributions on SQLServerCentral.
2009-04-03
1,377 reads
SQL Server UDF to convert integer date to datetime format
This short tip shows how you can convert an integer date, such as those stored in msdb to a real datetime value.
2009-04-03
3,612 reads
Troubleshooting
New author Mike Walsh brings us an interesting analogy on troubleshooting skills that might get you to think differently about how you attack problems.
2009-04-02
6,273 reads
Automatic Full Parallel Processing of Hierarchical SQL Queries
Although adding multiprocessing capabilities to applications is labor-intensive and error-prone, adding multicore capability to SQL query processing can be automatic, benefiting huge numbers of applications with little developer effort.
2009-04-02
2,311 reads
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
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I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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