Teammates
This Friday Steve Jones wants you to have some fun and compare yourself to an athlete or media figure, or even a fictional character.
2012-09-21
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Steve Jones
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Verify those Backups
It’s important that you backup your database. The most important thing you can do. However making backups isn’t enough: you...
2012-09-21
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Data Worms
Worms have been around a long time in computer systems. However changes in the global policies of governments and the possible retaliation for cyber warfare should have DBAs concerned.
2012-09-20
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Join Our Networking Dinner in Seattle
This is the third year that Andy Warren and myself are hosting a networking dinner in Seattle, just before the...
2012-09-20
1,153 reads
Creating a User Defined Table Type
I saw a post about a user defined table type in SQL Server and I was sure it was a...
2012-09-19
147,117 reads
2012-09-19
187 reads
Compress Everything
Data grows constantly and the size of some of our databases seems to have no end in sight. Steve Jones notes that we might just want to compress everything, just to keep up.
2012-09-18
270 reads
SQL in the City – US 2012 Tour
Last year I had the pleasure of speaking at two SQL in the City events: London and Los Angeles. It...
2012-09-18
1,386 reads
Three Rules for Database Development
Today Steve Jones talks about a series of rules he found for database development.
2012-09-17
597 reads
A Quick Count
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know if your career is also helping your wardrobe. (This editorial was originally published on Aug 23, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is on vacation.)
2012-09-14
180 reads
Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
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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