The Desktop
Steve Jones talks about laptops and desktop machines, and the potential issues that IT professionals have with one or the other.
2013-07-15
133 reads
Steve Jones
- Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball
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2013-07-15
173 reads
The Vacation Struggle
It can be hard to take all your time off each year and Steve Jones is in that situation right now. However he reminds us that life is more important than work.
2013-07-12
141 reads
Two Weeks until SQL Saturday #222 in Sacramento
It’s just two weeks until my next trip. It feels like I just got back from London, and one again...
2013-07-12
983 reads
2013-07-12
2,316 reads
Test Your Restores
Test your restores: he first tip in my Hard Earned Lessons of a DBA piece.
I can’t emphasize this enough. I’ve...
2013-07-11
829 reads
Programming
Programming is an important skill, perhaps extremely important for the future. Steve Jones thinks that's true.
2013-07-10
298 reads
Reporting on Data
Reporting is an important skill for many data professionals. Steve Jones has a few things you might consider working on as a data professional.
2013-07-09
261 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #44–Second Chances
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again. This is the monthly blog party, started by Adam Machanic. If you’d like to participate,...
2013-07-09
1,075 reads
Your Frame of Reference
How you examine and approach a problem might have a large impact on how you solve it. Steve Jones notes that it's important that all of us look at the problem from the point of view of the customer, as well as our own view.
2013-07-08
76 reads
Blogs
In Memory of Andrew Clarke, AKA Phil Factor
By Steve Jones
One of the parts of getting older that really sucks is I seem to...
Leading Through the Noise: Harnessing Data in the Age of Digital Overload
By Chris Yates
The New Leadership Frontier In today’s digital landscape, leaders are no longer just visionaries....
A New Word: Anderance
By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
Forums
taking the rcsi dive
Hi, we put together an extract that runs every 15 minutes against what i...
Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2022
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
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Question of the Day
Minimum Change Tracking Retention
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers