Working Long or Working Hard?

Would you rather work longer hours or tackle harder work? Steve Jones comments today on a recent post by Seth Godin. The answer as to what most people prefer might surprise you.

Colorado SQL Server User Groups – May

I saw a post from Marc Beacom on the presentations this week for various groups. You can get the info...

Competing with an MBA

If you are looking to move into management, do you need an MBA? It's nice, but Steve Jones notes that many people are realizing that an MBA doesn't necessarily prepare you to manage other people or lead them in a company.

Page Compression

Clean Code is Easier to Read – SQL Prompt

I saw a post recently that had query that looked like this:
select a.*,name, b.*
from sys.database_principals a, sys.database_permissions b

where permission_name...

Resource Governor Pools

Networking and Connections

This quote says it all:

It’s from an article on the 9/11 memorial and how an algorithm was used to inscribe...

Patch Week

My email account started getting notices of Windows patches yesterday, indicating it’s patch week again. If you manage Windows devices,...

Dropping a Row

How important is it that your server record all changes to every row? Probably very important and that is one of the foundations on which RDBMS platforms are built. Steve Jones talks about this being a difference with some NoSQL systems, and why it might not be acceptable to most businesses.

T-SQL Tuesday #18 – My CTE

It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, and it’s number 18. Hard to believe it’s been a year and a half...