Today Steve Jones talks about backups. Setting up a process is good, but you cannot count on it working forever. You need to check periodically to be sure it's working, and that your skills are not deteriorating.
2013-03-18
202 reads
This Friday Steve Jones notes that changing and altering your opinions is good and invites you to share things you might have learned that changed your mind in the past.
2013-03-15
135 reads
Whether practicing for an exam or interview, or just wanting to see who's got the biggest SQL Server brain in your office, this book is perfect. Containing 100 SQL Server Central Questions of the Day, this book is a great way to test yourself and increase your knowledge.
2013-03-15
3,533 reads
It’s the second Tuesday of the month and time for T-SQL Tuesday again. This is a monthly blog party, where...
2013-03-15 (first published: 2013-03-12)
2,848 reads
This is a short series on some customizations in SSMS to make it visually more appealing.
As a presenter, I’ve learned...
2013-03-14
1,153 reads
If you are the type of person that doesn't run DBCC checks, Steve Jones thinks you're a gambler. And you might think about attending SQL Intersection next month in Vegas.
2013-03-14
221 reads
Steve Jones asks the question why so much data in SQL Server is cleared when we restart an instance.
2013-03-13
183 reads
A great piece by LZ Granderson, and one that really make me stop and think a bit. Work and life...
2013-03-13
854 reads
Today Steve Jones gives his vision of the database in the future. He hopes that databases contain more information about not only their objects, but their needs, like backups and maintenance.
2013-03-12
364 reads
Do the people that build SQL Server really work with it? Steve Jones shares a short story from a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest. This editorial was originally published on May 20, 2008. It is being re-run as Steve is on vacation.
2013-03-11 (first published: 2008-05-20)
409 reads
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
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When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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