Steve Jones

My background is I have been working with computers since I was about 12. My first "career" job in this industry was with network administration where I became the local DBA by default. I have also spent lots of time administering Netware and NT networks, developing software, managing smaller IT groups, making lots of coffee, ordering pizza for late nights, etc., etc.

I currently am the editor of SQL Server Central and an advocate/architect at Redgate Software. I am also the President of SQL Saturday, maintain the T-SQL Tuesday monthly party, and remember our colleagues at sqlmemorial.org.

You can find out more about me on my blog (www.voiceofthedba.com) or LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/way0utwest)

Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball

Twitter: @way0utwest
Website: https://www.voiceofthedba.com
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Copilot Experiments: A little PowerShell help

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

It’s been a little while since I’ve had time to relax a bit and try some AI help. This is another experiment I made. A user on SSC asked...

2023-09-01 (first published: 2023-08-04)

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Friday Flyway Tips: Visualizing Undo Scripts

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

One nice thing with Flyway Enterprise is that it will automatically generate the undo scripts for migration scripts. However, it used to be that finding these and seeing the...

2023-09-01

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Looking Forward to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Steve takes a moment to think ahead to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 and what he's looking forward to at the event.

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2023-09-01

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Once a Month

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

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2023-09-01

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Finding Analogies with AI

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

I saw this article on using AI to help that included a few prompts. I decided to try one. This is part of a series of experiments with the...

2023-08-31

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Deprecated Restore Options

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

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2023-08-30

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Restore with Standby–#SQLNewBlogger

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

A customer had a question about restoring with standby, so I wrote a quick post to explain how this works. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully...

2023-08-30

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The IT Jobs AI Can't Do

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

This was a provocative title: 6 ITOps Skills That Will Never Be Automated. In a time when AI use is growing quickly and many people fear for their jobs, it's nice to see someone writing about areas that AI will struggle to handle. Ironically, lots of these articles are written by writers without much technical […]