2016-01-20
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Steve Jones
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The DBA Tax
Are you a DBA tax on your company? Or an asset that's worth the cost. Steve Jones talks about trying to be the latter and not the former.
2016-01-19 (first published: 2012-07-09)
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2016-01-19
1,348 reads
Disabling SQL Server Network Protocols
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-01-18
1,076 reads
Chips and Margaritas at SQL Saturday #461
It was a few years back that my wife and I planned a trip to the Austin City Lights music...
2016-01-15
632 reads
Security Convenience
Security is always a hot topic, and Steve Jones notes that we should be specific when we work with security.
2016-01-15
139 reads
Rebuilding a Heap–Don’t Do It
I saw someone mention recently that you can run a REBUILD on a heap table. I hadn’t realized that, but...
2016-01-14
1,780 reads
Tracking Professional Athletes
Today Steve Jones looks at the use of tracking sensors to gather spatial data on professional athletes for later analysis.
2016-01-14
96 reads
Hash Tables in PowerShell–Advent of Code Day 3
I continue to work on solving the Advent of Code puzzles in both PowerShell and T-SQL after completing them in...
2016-01-12
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2016-01-12
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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...
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Midjourney, Healthcare?
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Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
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BCP on Linux
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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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