The Kindle Alternative - Humor
Kind of funny. I saw this on Twitter the other day from @DanNunan and then someone sent it to me...
2009-03-10
765 reads
Steve Jones
- Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball
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Guest Editorial: Improving Northwind
The Northwind database has a place in our collective hearts, despite all efforts to displace it in favor of AdventureWorks. However, a lot has happened in the past twelve or so years, and Phil Factor wonders if we can't, as a community, do better.
2009-03-10
556 reads
Guest Editorial: Improving Northwind
The Northwind database has a place in our collective hearts, despite all efforts to displace it in favor of AdventureWorks. However, a lot has happened in the past twelve or so years, and Phil Factor wonders if we can't, as a community, do better.
2009-03-10
571 reads
Guest Editorial: Improving Northwind
The Northwind database has a place in our collective hearts, despite all efforts to displace it in favor of AdventureWorks. However, a lot has happened in the past twelve or so years, and Phil Factor wonders if we can't, as a community, do better.
2009-03-10
784 reads
Keep It Simple
As we build more sophisticated maintenance procedures, we increase the complexity of our systems. Is that a good thing? Steve Jones has a few comments on what this means for DBAs.
2009-03-10
70 reads
Netbooks - Hands On Review
The other day I was wandering around Best Buy and noticed that they had a few netbooks for sale. I...
2009-03-09
1,349 reads
What Does Support Look Like?
With a new version of SQL Server being released every 2-3 years now, what does that mean for support from Microsoft? What about from DBAs?
2009-03-09
139 reads
The Challenges of Being Safe
Securing your data is a challenge. Steve Jones has a few comments no just how hard it can be to obfuscate your production data as you move it to development environments.
2009-03-09
875 reads
The Challenges of Being Safe
Securing your data is a challenge. Steve Jones has a few comments no just how hard it can be to obfuscate your production data as you move it to development environments.
2009-03-09
644 reads
The Challenges of Being Safe
Securing your data is a challenge. Steve Jones has a few comments no just how hard it can be to obfuscate your production data as you move it to development environments.
2009-03-09
641 reads
Blogs
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
T-SQL Tuesday #197 Invitation – An impactful session or two from a conference
By DataOnWheels
I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new...
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
CMS server query & temp tables
I am annoyed. We have a CMS server that has hundreds of servers saved...
The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Problem Isn't Always Your...
Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
See possible answers