The Impact of Outages

Steve Jones talks about the problems of outages, and why we ought to perhaps introduce failure into our systems to help us learn to cope with them.

Geeky Distractions

This Friday Steve Jones has a non-work related, but fun poll. Let us know what your geeky media recommendations are this year.

When Did That Restore Finish?

I saw this question come across Twitter under the #sqlhelp tag one day and was wondering myself. Someone suggested the...

You Can Telecommute

Today Steve Jones tells you can implement telecommuting at your job and gives you a few ideas how to get it approved.

Time for a ROWID?

Steve Jones looks to the future of SQL Server and wonders if we ought to add a rowid to the internal structures.

NewSQL Can Save the World

A new breed of products use the relational model and address the scalability concerns of many RDBMSes. Today Steve Jones talks about NewSQL databases.

NUMA

Patches for SQL 10 and Techniques for SQL 11

Steve rounds up the patch news for SQL Server this week along with a look forward to the next version of the platform.

Be Reasonable

Be reasonable. That's how Steve Jones thinks managers ought to behave towards their employees.

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