Steve Jones

My background is I have been working with computers since I was about 12. My first "career" job in this industry was with network administration where I became the local DBA by default. I have also spent lots of time administering Netware and NT networks, developing software, managing smaller IT groups, making lots of coffee, ordering pizza for late nights, etc., etc.

I currently am the editor of SQL Server Central and an advocate/architect at Redgate Software. I am also the President of SQL Saturday, maintain the T-SQL Tuesday monthly party, and remember our colleagues at sqlmemorial.org.

You can find out more about me on my blog (www.voiceofthedba.com) or LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/way0utwest)

Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball

Twitter: @way0utwest
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Back from the MVP Summit

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Back home after three days in Seattle at the 2011 MVP Summit. As I wrote in an editorial this week,...

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2011-03-04

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Coding Standards Part 2 - Formatting

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

System Development Life Cycle

The second part of Steve Jones' series on coding standards within SQL Server.

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2011-03-04 (first published: 2002-07-01)

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SLA Contracts

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

This Friday Steve Jones talks about the commitments and contracts that you may have with your customers. Do you know what they are? Is the contract explicitly spelled out? Take this Friday's poll and share your answer with everyone else.

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2011-03-04

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RAID 10

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Hardware

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2011-03-04

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Slow Fixes

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Today we have an editorial reprinted from Jan 15, 2006 as Steve is on vacation. This one talks about the patching process at Microsoft, and why it sometimes is slower than we might like.

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2011-03-03

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Bad IT People

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

What happens when you have bad IT people working in your company? Steve Jones says that they always will be around, but we might not want to enable them to continue in this business when we find them.