Goal Tuesday
Almost halfway into the first month of the new year, Steve Jones reminds us of the power of goals. Today he encourages you to set up your own goals for the coming year.
2010-01-12
81 reads
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Do You Want to Learn a Thing or Two?
A list of books to read in any area from an expert can be invaluable in growing your skills. Steve Jones talks about one list from Paul Randal, former SQL Server developer.
2010-01-11
170 reads
Balancing the Message
How can we get information about new products, tools, and services in the Internet world? Steve Jones has a poll this Friday asking what ways you would like to interact with SQL Server vendors on the site.
2010-01-08
101 reads
Being Supportive
Steve Jones says we need to stick together in IT, at least from the perspective of the client. Otherwise we can all look bad as an industry.
2010-01-07
74 reads
Happy New Year 2010
The first day of 2010 has Steve Jones blooper reel in addition to some well wishes.
2010-01-01
61 reads
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
2009-12-31
101 reads
The Year in Review - 2009
Steve Jones looks back at 2009 and examines some of the predictions he made at the beginning of the year.
2009-12-30
64 reads
Crash and Burn
A recent crash of the popular Coding Horror blog brings the responsibility of backups to the front of today's editorial. See if you agree with Steve Jones and his take on backups and restores.
2009-12-29
224 reads
Holiday Coverage
It seems that IT people often get stuck working on the holidays, whether being on-call or even dealing with maintenance. We need to remember to rotate that coverage fairly since all of us deserve a break. Steve Jones also reminds you to negotiate compensation.
2009-12-28
155 reads
Service Pack 4
This week Steve Jones asks if Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2005 is coming out and makes an argument why it should.
2009-12-28
677 reads
Blogs
Redgate Summit Comes to the Windy City
By Steve Jones
I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event,...
Non-Functional Requirements
By Brian Kelley
I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a...
Techorama 2024 – Slides
You can find the slidedeck for my Techorama session “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” on...
Forums
AG listener cant be removed
Testing with AG on Linux with Cluster=NONE. it was all going ok and as...
Remove comma inside Comma Delimited File csv in SSIS Using Script task
Hi, I have two tables: one for headers with 9 fields and another for...
Inserting 100K rows Performance - Baseline Performance
We're trying to understand how quick new versions of SQL server can be. Obviously...
Question of the Day
The "ORDER BY" clause behavior
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers