The Agile Cult

Lots of developers have embraced Agile development, and Steve Jones thinks it's a good way to build software. However, it's not necessarily as easy as you might think.

DR Failovers

We don't often predict for disasters, which is good since we rarely have extensive plans for dealing with them. If we do, do we actually test our plans, or test the systems under full load?

Energy news that caught my eye

I’ve been a big fan of nuclear energy ever since I worked at a power plant. Before that I was...

Password Ninjas

How do you keep track of passwords? A few experts out there share some of their techniques and Steve Jones adds his thoughts.

TDE Setup

Data Philanthropy

The idea of giving back to the world some of your success has been something many successful businesses have done forever. Steve Jones thinks they should consider giving more than physical resources, but also give data.

Disable the Charms Bar – Making Windows 8 Better

One of the things that’s bothered me is the way the charms bar frequent popping out as my mouse moves...

The Stairway to Deployment

Next week I travel to Sacramento, CA for the SQL in the City Seminar – Stairway to Deployment on Friday, July...

Hack Resistant?

Can we make a hack resistant database? A vendor claims this, but Steve Jones thinks it's not really a good claim to make and that we ought to make it our job to secure databases.

SQL Server Needs Tempdb

I saw a post recently where someone noted they had moved tempdb like this:
USE master;
GO
ALTER DATABASE tempdb
MODIFY FILE (NAME = tempdev,...