April Fools is Fun
Some good jokes going around, and the few I wrote for SQLServerCentral went over well. There was a good one...
2010-04-01
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Steve Jones
- Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball
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Career Advice - Moving to Oracle
I’ve always said that it didn’t matter what the database was. If it could do the job then it’s worth...
2010-04-01
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No More NULL
A change in the support for NULL values has Steve Jones commenting on the implications.
2010-04-01
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Outtakes
Sometimes I think I’m quite the goober. Alternately I’ll laugh or put my head in my hands as I try...
2010-04-01
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2010-04-01
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The Vacation Crash
The family returned back from the UK last night, after traveling for something like 14 hours, plus an early morning...
2010-03-31
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2010-03-30
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Why Be an MCP?
With Steve Jones on vacation, we reprint on of his more popular editorials from the past. This was originally published on Feb 14, 2005.
2010-03-30
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Space in the Clouds
Spatial support is coming to SQL Azure soon, and Steve Jones thinks about how the service could improve this support.
2010-03-29
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Inserting into an XML document
I was reading through the latest XML Workshop article that I have from Jacob Sebastian. It’s a fantastic series for...
2010-03-26
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Blogs
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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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