Waiting for SP1
This Friday Steve Jones wants to ask a poll about SQL Server 2012. Do you think it's ready for your production servers?
2012-03-16
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An Azure Outage
Recently the Azure service had an outage and Steve Jones has a few comments on this and why it might not be worse than your own company's IT group.
2012-03-14
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Ownership Chains in SQL Server
Someone asked the question recently about allowing a user to run a process,but not execute the individual pieces of the...
2012-03-14
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The Consistency Debate
Steve Jones wonders today if data professionals get a little too hung up on the consistency issues between servers.
2012-03-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #28 – Jack of all Trades, Master of None
It’s that time of the month again, T-SQL Tuesday Tuesday. This month Argenis Fernandez, MCM, and big round SQL teddy-bear...
2012-03-13
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2012-03-13
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SQL Server 2012 RTMs
This past week the big news in the SQL Server space was the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2012.
2012-03-12
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Old, but stable
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know about the older versions you are running in your production environments. Are you still using SQL Server 2000?
2012-03-09
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Traveling More Than Expected
For a guy that was looking to not travel much, it seems that I’ve got way more on my plate...
2012-03-09
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Why Support WIT
First, only support Women in Technology if you want to. It’s an idea that appeals to some, but not to...
2012-03-09
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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...
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Question of the Day
Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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