Power Tools at Work
This editorial was originally published on Jan 17, 2007. It is being republished as Steve is on vacation. This one deals with data security.
2011-11-22
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Steve Jones
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Helpful Advice?
This editorial was originally published on Feb 5, 2007 and is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. Is this the advice you'd give, or take, in a DR situation? Steve thinks it's not.
2011-11-21
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RC0
This week saw the release of RC2 of SQL Server 2012 and marks an important milestone towards the next release of SQL Server.
2011-11-21
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What's Your Title?
A career based poll this Friday has Steve Jones asking what your title is, or maybe what you think it should be given the work that you do.
2011-11-18
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More SQL Injection
Why are sites still being hit by SQL Injection on a large scale? Steve Jones talks about a recent large scale attack that affected over a million sites.
2011-11-17
592 reads
Shutting down for a week
I try to speak and write about career things on a regular basis because I think they’re important topics for...
2011-11-17
1,663 reads
Do You Want to be a DBA in Space?
With the DBA in Space contest ending this week, Steve Jones has some thoughts on the contest, and what he'd do if he were to win.
2011-11-16
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Network Databases? Is it time to change?
Today Steve responds to a blog post from Microsoft that talks about the viability of placing our database files on network shares.
2011-11-15
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The First Thing To Do After Creating Keys
I’ve been looking at some security code in preparation for a few talks I plan on doing next year and...
2011-11-15
1,215 reads
SQL Inspire NYC – 2011
The lineup for SQLInspire
I spoke at the SQL Inspire event this last weekend and it was a greart experience. This...
2011-11-14
1,495 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
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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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