SQLServerCentral Webinar #24: Prepare for When Disaster Strikes
Steve Jones presents some disaster stories with ideas on how you might prevent, or mitigate the effects, of those problem situations.
2013-07-29
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Steve Jones
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2013-07-26
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Data Farming
Another spy story involving data that's not true, and perhaps not plausible, but it makes Steve Jones think about data shadows.
2013-07-25 (first published: 2008-10-13)
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2013-07-25
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Moving to the Heartland
With companies like Microsoft and Google building data centers in small towns, Steve Jones has some comments about how this might affect IT jobs.
2013-07-24 (first published: 2008-10-16)
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A Vacation and Traveling to Sacramento
I’ve got a couple days off, starting today after my webinar on Preparing for When Disaster Strikes. I’ve got some...
2013-07-23
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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.
2013-07-23 (first published: 2008-09-23)
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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?
2013-07-19
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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...
2013-07-19
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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.
2013-07-18
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I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
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