2015-01-09
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Steve Jones
- Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball
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Building Connection Strings
I ran across a great article on Connection Strings from my good friend, Allen White (b, t, c), recently. Quite...
2015-01-08
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Two Days Off
Verizon is taking their cloud service offline for maintenance for two days. Steve Jones doesn't think that sounds good.
2015-01-08
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2015-01-08
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Test Your Situation
One of the important things is to be able to recover your environment. That doesn't mean you need to know everything about SQL Server and potential disasters, but you should know their affect on your situation.
2015-01-07
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2015-01-07
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Recovering from Bad Deployments
When you deploy software, what do you do if things don't go well? Steve Jones talks about a few options you might have.
2015-01-06
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Beware of Login Issues for Privileged Accounts
In a recent post, I described an attack against a privileged account using a simple SQL Injection technique of updating...
2015-01-05
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Staying Successful
What helps people be successful in a company? Perhaps a little analytic work can help employers determine this.
2015-01-05
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My 2015 Plan
I started this on Jan 1, but with family commitments, I ended up delaying it until today. I wrote about...
2015-01-02
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
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Question of the Day
Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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