Steve Jones

My background is I have been working with computers since I was about 12. My first "career" job in this industry was with network administration where I became the local DBA by default. I have also spent lots of time administering Netware and NT networks, developing software, managing smaller IT groups, making lots of coffee, ordering pizza for late nights, etc., etc.

I currently am the editor of SQL Server Central and an advocate/architect at Redgate Software. I am also the President of SQL Saturday, maintain the T-SQL Tuesday monthly party, and remember our colleagues at sqlmemorial.org.

You can find out more about me on my blog (www.voiceofthedba.com) or LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/way0utwest)
  • Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball

Blogs

Creating a GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner

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I had to demo the Flyway Autopilot system recently and created a GitHub Actions...

Migrating from Azure PG Single Server to Flex with Azure VM and pg_dump/restore

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This is more complicated than using the Azure Migration method, but because it’s maxed...

PowerShell (and T-SQL) and Elastic Jobs

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I’ve covered how to create Elastic Jobs in the portal (this one is important...

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Forums

Contracting DBA - Permissions for initial analysis

By StephenSQL

Accidental DBA here.  After looking at all the work that needs to be done,...

How to convert run_date and run_time columns to datetime from SQL Agent systable

By Lord Slaagh

Hello SSC, Hope you are all having a great Monday! I am trying to...

SQL Server Reporting Services 2022 Permissions Issue

By benkaz

I'm having a bit of an issue with SSRS permissions. Users (Operations Manager Report...

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Question of the Day

AG Rules for Databases

Which of these is not a requirement for a database to be added to an Availability Group (AG)?

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