Morale Data

Would any of you want to track your morale at work and have your boss access the data anonymously? Steve Jones think it's a good tool, but one that is easily abused.

Should we outsource identity management

This week Steve Jones talks about password security.

Initialize Subscriptions

Healthy Work Habits

Today Steve Jones talks a little about the work environment for IT workers. We ought to pay attention and ensure we are taking care of ourselves.

Enabling Compression? Update your baseline

I wrote recently about capacity planning, with an item near the end about disk usage. Someone pointed out to me...

No Cloud for Stack Exchange

The use of cloud computing isn't in the plans for the Stack Exchange network of sites? Steve Jones thinks they have a pretty cool reason not to use the cloud and he thinks you ought to have a similar view at work.

Concurrent Administration

Back to Vegas

The DevConnections conference in the spring of 2012 is in Las Vegas, and Steve Jones is glad to be going.

RECONFIGURE can flush the procedure cache

I ran across this KB article the other day, which lists a few ways in which performance is affected by...

Hashing