Tax Day

Steve Jones has a poll about your career and how you view it today.

What's Today?

PAAS

Platform as a service, a new way of looking at applications. It's analogous to SAAS and IAAS, which can improve the efficiency of the software purchase or the hardware acquisition process. Steve Jones notes that this is something he'd like to see for database platforms.

Close, but no MCM Cigar

I failed.
There’s no other way to say it, but I’m not really disappointed or discouraged. I’m actually fairly upbeat about...

Smart Energy Doesn't Seem So Smart

Quite a few utility companies and energy producers have ha data breeches in the last year, yet most of them don't have good tools to detect the intrusions or the support of executive management. Steve Jones talks about this being a problem in many companies.

SQL Injection Everywhere

Steve Jones talks about the possibility of SQL Injection, or other security issues from malformed input, affecting our lives in new and annoying ways.

T-SQL Tuesday Reminder – Coming next week

Matt Velic is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. You have a week to get a post ready on the apply...

The Page Checksum

The Standard Edition Wish List

This Friday Steve Jones asks what you would like to see in Standard Edition. Is there one feature that would make a big difference to you?

Am I a sysadmin? (or other SQL Server role)

How do you check if you are a sysadmin? It’s fairly easy to do in Management Studio. You can go...