Execution Plan reuse

Go Small

The SQL Server community is amazing, and Steve Jones hopes we continue to be close as we grow. He brings light on an idea to grow us larger, but smaller.

Load Balanced IIS Machines

I noticed a contest this week while working on the Database Weekly newsletter. It’s the Cloud Hero contest, with the...

Data Security Woes

Another week, and another set of data security issues around the world.

Drop and Recreate

Steve Jones notes that disasters come in all shapes and sizes, but a little prep that you might not have thought of can reduce the scale of the issues.

RegEx Those Dates

Recently I was working on transforming some dates, and wanted to generate a large n number of dates for testing....

SQL Server Disk Space Emergencies

One of the things I’ll see happen often with SQL Server instances is that the system will run out of...

Multi-Value Parameters

The Last Job

Steve Jones contemplates employment and the future of the last job he'll have. This Friday he asks you if this might be yours.

Citizen Programmers

Steve Jones finds the Salesforce platform interesting and notes we have lots of "citizen programmers" doing work with data.