The Challenger

There is plenty of competition in the database platform space for SQL Server. There's a new NuSQL platform, whose vendor hopes will replace SQL Server as the platform of choice in the cloud. However Steve Jones isn't sure this will be the case.

Webinar: Forgotten Rings and Other Monitoring Stories

In this session, Grant Fritchey, Microsoft MVP, drills down into a few of the more obscure monitoring metrics that can give you very precise information about exactly what's happening within your server. He'll also show you how you can use custom metrics to enable these metrics in Red Gate's SQL Monitor.

Webinar: Using SQL Storage Compress by Steve Jones and Brad McGehee

Steve Jones and Brad McGehee lead you through real-world examples of working with SQL Storage Compress

The Platform Problem

Steve Jones sees a problem with the Azure platform. It's one that he thinks is limiting adoption, and may become a big problem for Microsoft at some point.

T-SQL Tuesday #42–The Long and Winding Road

It’s T-SQL Tuesday time, this month hosted by Wendy Pastrick who asks you to talk about the Long and Winding...

INTO Identities

Schizophrenic Windows 8

I’ve been using Windows 8 almost exclusively for about 3 weeks. I got a new desktop a couple months back,...

Visualizations

A picture can express a thousand words. That's a phrase that many of us understand well, and one we embrace when we try to present large amounts of data in reports and dashboards. This week Steve Jones asks you what visualizations you use.

A Broken Data Model

After a recent trip, Steve Jones noted a problem somewhere with the way airlines are handling passenger data.

Our Race with Machines

A future world where the machines rule, as shown in films like Terminator and the Matrix, isn't what most people want. However the fears of machines taking over much of our world are very real. Steve Jones thinks it's not as bad as you might believe.