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....

Happy President's Day 2012

Today is President's Day in the US and Steve Jones is on vacation.

Programmers v Salespeople

This Friday Steve Jones asks whether you think the salespeople or the technical people are more important to the success of a company. And if they should be better compensated.