Lost in Space
It seems a tremendous amount of data is lost every year on laptops in airports. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with physical security and your portable computers.
2013-06-20 (first published: 2008-09-03)
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SQL Server Should Work for Us
SQL Server is a great platform, but there are problems in places. Steve Jones thinks that fixing some issues might be a good investment for Microsoft.
2013-06-19
203 reads
Speakers: Rehearsals Help
Today was a rehearsal day. Actually the last 2-3 days of work have been split between rehearsing talks that I’m...
2013-06-18
837 reads
The Best Programmers
How do keep the best programmers? Steve Jones has a few thoughts that might cause you to rethink how you manage your programming stars.
2013-06-18
384 reads
Losing Data
As data professionals, we want to avoid losing data. We won't always be successful, but we can avoid making the easy mistakes.
2013-06-17
109 reads
SQL in the City Goes Mobile
This week is the kickoff of the third year of SQL in the City from Red Gate. As we have...
2013-06-17
963 reads
Trust
Why does the IT industry seem to act and run so differently than many other industries? Steve Jones takes a stab at explaining this.
2013-06-17
133 reads
Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?
The best at their crafts are usually the most rewarded in sports, but not necessarily in other fields. This week Steve Jones asks if you would like it to be different?
2013-06-14
194 reads
Data Vision
Computer vision has been something that researchers have worked on for years. We have no shortage of cameras, and we are starting to see the computing systems behind these devices starting to actually understand what is being seen. That understanding is very valuable. Will we see something similar happening in our SQL Server technologies?
2013-06-12
110 reads
The Watson Service
IBM's Watson project continues to grow and the latest implementation might be one that affects many of us in our daily lives.
2013-06-11
116 reads
Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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