Azure is Down

I saw a note about an outage on Windows Azure, apparently one that’s been going on for seven hours. Once...

The Cloud is good for your career

Is the cloud good for your career? Steve Jones thinks so, and gives you a few reasons you might want to learn more about it.

SQL Server Agent Roles

The Power of Hadoop

Hadoop is an open source framework for working with data, and one that Microsoft has adopted. Is it worth using in your environment? Steve Jones thinks you should investigate it.

A Break from Databases

A Friday poll that's a break from work, and should be a bit of fun. Today Steve Jones asks about movies, and what's been interesting from the last year.

No MVP Summit for Me

On the corner of my rather messy desk is little recognition item in the image to the right. It’s a...

Service Service Accounts

Future Virtual Machines

What's the benefit of virtual machines and hypervisors? Steve Jones has a few comments on them and their future.

Model Database

Where’s My Backup? SQL Server Backup Issues

You can cause yourself problems if you don’t know where your backups are stored, and how they are being made....