Old Dog, New Tricks

Steve Jones learns a new trick working with T-SQL, and is surprised how easy it is. He recommends you work on updating your skills over time as well.

Returning Results from an Insert – OUTPUT clause

I needed to return an identity value recently from an insert for use in another piece of code. For a...

INSERT OUTPUT

A few quick time calculations

Have you ever needed to do a quick time calculations of the amount of hours/minutes/seconds that have passed? Suppose you...

Disk Drives in the Sky

Steve Jones talks today about storage innovations from the large cloud vendors and how that can relate to your job as a database professional.

Morale Data

Would any of you want to track your morale at work and have your boss access the data anonymously? Steve Jones think it's a good tool, but one that is easily abused.

Should we outsource identity management

This week Steve Jones talks about password security.

Initialize Subscriptions

Healthy Work Habits

Today Steve Jones talks a little about the work environment for IT workers. We ought to pay attention and ensure we are taking care of ourselves.

Enabling Compression? Update your baseline

I wrote recently about capacity planning, with an item near the end about disk usage. Someone pointed out to me...