The Identity Limit

Taking Care of Things Today

Steve Jones talks about procrastination today and how you might not want to do that with your SQL Servers.

Upgraded SSD

I was going to call this an upgraded HDD, but that’s not right. Technically it’s a drive update, but really...

Building Rollback Scripts with SQL Compare

There’s a neat switch in SQL Compare that lets you build rollback scripts. It looks like this:

I’ve used this before...

A Little Empathy

Perspective makes a big difference and Steve Jones looks at how you might change the way you think about clients, customers, and the work you do.

Prevent sp_ Procedures with SQLCop

Learn how you can use SQLCop to prevent your developers from writing stored procedures that are named sp_ something.

Execute the Current Statement–SQL Prompt

This is a great little feature in SQL Prompt that I wrote about at SQLServerCentral. It’s Current statement Execution, which...

Hadoop and SQL Server

Hadoop is a technology that's getting quite a bit of attention in the last few years, including integration with SQL Server. Steve Jones talks about the technology and how it might fit in your career.

Counting values

Testing

We know that software testing is important, but we often don't do a great job of executing. Steve Jones talk database testing today.