Do You Want a Microsoft Solution?

Today Steve wonders if official solutions from a vendor are that important.

The Density Vector

Separate Reads

Today Steve wonders how many software developers use separate connections for reads and writes in their application.

The Hash Join I

Comparing Images

Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting

The episode on data masking and subetting is out. You can see it here: Youtube Spotify Watch and check this out. This is especially close to my heart as...

Monday Monitor Tips: Projecting Disk Space

One of the things that many DBAs struggle with is managing space across an estate. There might be one or two servers that you watch closely, or that are...

Time to Change Your Team

Many of you can't choose your team, or even change teams if you want, but from an organizational perspective, it might be the right thing to do. Whether you like it or not.

A New Word: Skidding

skidding – v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but are actually sincere and deeply felt. I used to make lots of sarcastic comments. Some...

Backing up the Database Encryption Key