Keeping Your Soul

How much do you need to sacrifice to succeed in business? It might be a lot, but Steve Jones says a lot of financial success is not worth losing your soul over.

When Do You Take a Full Backup?

This series of blog posts are related to my presentation, The Top Ten Skills You Need, which is scheduled for...

Tricky Questions

This Friday Steve Jones is looking for help with interview questions. What questions have been hard in an interview or surprised you? Let us know and help others be prepared for their next interview.

TDE and Backups

Data Matters

Data is important, but today Steve Jones notes that what we do with it is even more important.

Two Types of Tail Log Backups

In a recent thread I noted that a tail log backup is essentially a regular log backup, but made with...

The Window Is Shrinking

Today Steve talks about security and the fact that your window for lax security is shrinking for new applications.

Hardware Hacking

Steve Jones examines one of the issues of foreign chip production: security. Will this be an attack vector in the future?

The Career Path

This Friday Steve Jones wants to know what would be your ideal career path.

The Woes of Cloud Computing

Steve Jones talks about the problems you might face when moving to cloud computing and the fact that you ought to be prepared to move at some point.