Steve Jones

My background is I have been working with computers since I was about 12. My first "career" job in this industry was with network administration where I became the local DBA by default. I have also spent lots of time administering Netware and NT networks, developing software, managing smaller IT groups, making lots of coffee, ordering pizza for late nights, etc., etc.

I currently am the editor of SQL Server Central and an advocate/architect at Redgate Software. I am also the President of SQL Saturday, maintain the T-SQL Tuesday monthly party, and remember our colleagues at sqlmemorial.org.

You can find out more about me on my blog (www.voiceofthedba.com) or LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/way0utwest)

Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball

Twitter: @way0utwest
Website: https://www.voiceofthedba.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/way0utwest
Bluesky: way0utwest.bsky.social
Threads: @way0utwest

All authors

Regular Audit Analysis

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you handle audit data in your environment. Do you regularly analyze the data? Or do you wait for something to go wrong before you check the data.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2011-06-24

130 reads

Discuss

Setting a Unique Index on a Bit Field

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Can you set a unique index on a bit field? Well, you can, but you’d end up with a very...

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2011-06-23

1,842 reads

The Age of Software

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Does the age of software matter? Steve Jones talks about this after there was a decision for the SQL 11 tools not to support Windows XP.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2011-06-23

266 reads

Discuss

Data Compression in SQL Server

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Do you know much about data compression? It seems that quite a few people I meet don’t really understand how...

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2011-06-21

2,344 reads

Excel in the Clouds

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Today Steve Jones talks about a new use for cloud computing with Excel to analyze large sets of data.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2011-06-21

163 reads

Discuss

Archiving

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

It seems that archival isn't on the mind of most designers when they first build a database, which is OK, but DBAs ought to be building skills to implement this if the data size grows large.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2011-06-20

739 reads

Discuss

Evaluating Sessions You Attend

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

I have seen more than a few posts about feedback that speakers get from sessions in the last couple months....

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2011-06-20

1,426 reads

Patch Week

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

This week Steve Jones notes there were quite a few patches from Microsoft for a variety of products. No SQL Server specific security patches, but that doesn't mean that DBAs shouldn't be patching systems.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2011-06-20

135 reads

Discuss

Multiple Failures

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

This Friday Steve Jones has a disaster recovery poll. When you have a true disaster, often there are multiple things that go wrong and cause a cascading failure. Is this common, let us know what your experience is this Friday.