Clearing the transaction log

Cloud Hacking

Steve Jones thinks that security will be one of the biggest impediments to the adoption of cloud computing might be the security issues and hacking targets it provides.

SQL Saturday Advice–Upload Decks Early

One of the neat features for the SQL Saturday site is that it allows the speakers to upload a deck...

Indexing Lookups

A Full Backup can Impact a Log Backup–MCM Prep

In the early days of SQL Server you could not run a log backup while a full backup was running....

Hybrid Hires

Will you be a hybrid worker in your next job? Steve Jones notes that many of the new jobs that will be created in the future might involve hybrids.

Work Isn’t the Most Important Thing

I had quite an adventure today, away from work. We had a pipe freeze in the house, a sick kid,...

What’s a Passive Server?

Licensing software is often a more complicated process than I think it should be. Licensing database software seems to be...

What's a Passive Server?

Today Steve Jones talks about licensing and the complexity if brings in various scenarios. Do your passive servers have to be licensed? What is the definition of "passive"?

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