Many people have been unsure of cloud computing and what it means for your particular application. Steve Jones notes there's a great new demo that can help you get started exploring the Azure offerings.
2014-03-17
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How many passwords do you have? Steve Jones has a lot and while he notes there are some new ways for us to authorize ourselves for servers, they aren't necessarily making things more secure or less complex.
2014-03-17
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What do you do as a DBA if you get asked to cook the books? With the economy doing poorly, some executives will be tempted to mis-report earnings and they might ask the technical people to help. Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2014-03-14 (first published: 2009-09-03)
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2014-03-14
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The #sqlhelp hashtag on Twitter is a great way to interact with the SQL Server community and get help.
2014-03-13
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This is part of my series on building a virtual lab for use with SQL Server and Windows. You can...
2014-03-13
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SQL Server is so large and complex that it's like an operating system. In fact, there the core engine is often referred to as the "SQL OS" by Microsoft developers. Steve Jones would like to see SQL Server as it's own OS at some point.
2014-03-12 (first published: 2009-08-26)
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A survey of developers on Stack Overflow has some interesting results that Steve Jones notes. Some of them might just impact our careers as data professionals.
2014-03-11
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It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday, this month hosted by Michael J Swart, our artistic DBA in the community. I love...
2014-03-11
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The practice of continuous software development is growing, with continuous integration, deployment, and delivery being topics that Steve Jones is learning about. Today he talks about delivery.
2014-03-10
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It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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