2012-05-15
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Steve Jones
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Create a Filestream Filegroup for Filetables – SQL Server 2012
Once you’ve enabled filestream, the next step is to add a filegroup to your database to hold the filestream data....
2012-05-14
6,747 reads
Is Software Engineering Dead?
Software engineering is seen as a dead end career choice, at least by some people. Steve Jones disagrees.
2012-05-14
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Time for Your Career
This week Steve Jones wants to know if you can find time for your professional development. Regularly improving your skills is an important part of your career in technology, and the poll this weeks asks what time you can make for improvement.
2012-05-11
214 reads
Teambuilding and Bonding
Steve Jones attended a day out from the Red Gate offices recently and he talks about the value of those experiences.
2012-05-10
162 reads
The Difference Between Change Tracking and Change Data Capture
Change Tracking (CT) and Change Data Capture (CDC) were both added to SQL Server in 2008. At first it seems...
2012-05-10
46,496 reads
Setup SQL Server on Amazon RDS
Learn how you can set up a new SQL Server instance painlessly on Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS)
2012-05-09
5,296 reads
SQL Server on RDS
Amazon now offers SQL Server 2008 R2 in their RDS service. It's an easy way to get working with SQL Server with a minimal investment.
2012-05-09
286 reads
The Colocated Dangers
An outage at SQLServerCentral reminded Steve Jones that it's not "if" a disaster will occur, but "when" it will occur that should have you preparing for a disaster at some point in the future.
2012-05-08
111 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #30 – Ethics
This month the topic is hosted by Chris Shaw, and his topic is ethics.
The blog party is the second Tuesday...
2012-05-08
1,056 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Anderance
By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
Troubleshooting SQL Server – Starting with the Error Log
By gbargsley
We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
From OLTP to Analytics: Bridging the Gap with Modern SQL Architectures
By Chris Yates
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
Forums
Work out closing balance using opening balance of prior month
Hello, I think I need a recursive cte query but unsure of the logic....
The Security of Old Tech
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Question of the Day
Tables with a SPARSE Column and Consumption
True or False: Tables with a SPARSE column consume more space than regular columns if most values are NOT NULL.
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