This week Steve Jones reminds us that improving performance in T-SQL is not always obvious. Those little nuggets of knowledge can be very handy, which is why you should be regularly looking to acquire more of them.
2011-05-23
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This Friday Steve Jones wonders what types of bugs you find in software. Are there more prevalent because of design or coding?
2011-05-20
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What do yo do if you find malicious code in your system? Delete it? Steve Jones suggests that a honeypot might be a better idea.
2011-05-18
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Would you rather work longer hours or tackle harder work? Steve Jones comments today on a recent post by Seth Godin. The answer as to what most people prefer might surprise you.
2011-05-17
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If you are looking to move into management, do you need an MBA? It's nice, but Steve Jones notes that many people are realizing that an MBA doesn't necessarily prepare you to manage other people or lead them in a company.
2011-05-16
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How important is it that your server record all changes to every row? Probably very important and that is one of the foundations on which RDBMS platforms are built. Steve Jones talks about this being a difference with some NoSQL systems, and why it might not be acceptable to most businesses.
2011-05-10
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Storage costs are constantly rising, especially for databases as we gather more and more data. However not all of our data is necessarily the same priority or requires the same hardware. Steve Jones talks about the benefits you might get if you can tier your storage.
2011-05-09
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The outage at Amazon's Web Services recently affected a lot of different companies. However not everyone was affected. The reach of the cloud and the competition for attention means that while we have to learn to expect failures, they are not necessarily evenly distributed.
2011-05-05
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The recent Amazon AWS outage was blamed on human error. Steve Jones notes that the more interconnected our systems are, the more likely that a human error might cause cascades between the systems.
2011-05-03
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More cloud talk today as the Air Force is building a new intelligence sharing system in the cloud? Why the cloud? Is the cloud really better?
2011-05-02
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When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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