RAID 5 Parity

Do You Need A Safe Word?

A hacker breaches security by gaining control of an executive's email account. Does that mean that we should consider adding another level of authentication to privileged requests?

SQL Server Connections in a week

I’m heading to SQL Server Connections next week, part of the DevConnections conference featuring a whole slew of technologies. Once...

Test Before Deciding

How do you decide what improvements to make to your SQL Server? Or what settings to turn off? Having hard and fast rules isn't a great idea, and Steve Jones talks about why.

Looking at SOX

This Friday Steve Jones asks what impact the Sarbanes-Oxley act has had on your job. After nearly a decade since the act was passed, is it intrusive in the workplace or just another part of your job.

Implicit and Explicit Conversions

Code that depends on implicit conversions can live for years in production without issue. However Steve Jones says that you shouldn't depend on these conversions

My Connect Items – Won’t Fix

There’s been some work to close out items in Connect that aren’t going to be fixed. I don’t know exactly...

A SQL Conference In The Sun

SQL Connections, part of Dev Connections, is coming in a few weeks. Now is the time to register and get the chance to learn in a sunny location.

The MCM is Worldwide

Well, not everywhere, but as long as Prometric sites meet some security requirements, they can offer the MCM tests. I...

NoSQL is Not the Answer

NoSQL solves some problems in the database world, but not all of them. It's also not an evolution of the relational database, but as Steve Jones notes, it has some features we might see in SQL Server.