Evaluating a DBA (or AI)
Steve has a few thoughts on hiring and the way in which you might want to evaluate a DBA candidate.
2026-09-16 (first published: 2021-06-18)
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Steve has a few thoughts on hiring and the way in which you might want to evaluate a DBA candidate.
2026-09-16 (first published: 2021-06-18)
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Recently the Azure service had an outage and Steve Jones has a few comments on this and why it might not be worse than your own company's IT group.
2026-09-14 (first published: 2012-03-14)
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This Friday Steve is looking for those things you wish you didn't have to handle at work. Let us know what tasks you avoid and would rather hand off to others.
2026-09-11
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Lots of organizations use multiple database platforms. Steve notes there is a cost to choosing to allow this.
2026-09-09
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It's the first week of September, but Steve sees it as the end of summer. It's a time to catch up on things.
2026-09-04
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Today Steve wonders if the data professionals out there measure themselves on the job.
2026-09-02
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Today Steve has a few comments on backups and your ability to get to a restore in the event of an issue with your provider.
2026-08-31
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2026-08-28
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Steve thinks administrator rights for too many people is a bad idea, but even when it's a limited group, he recommends some sort of governance.
2026-08-26
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AI is changing the world, but it's changing us as well, challenging the things we have been confident in and depended on in our career.
2026-08-24
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By Steve Jones
Thanks for attending my sessions. Resources below: Slides: Using Data API Builder GitHub repo: ...
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions at VS Live San Diego yesterday. It...
By Steve Jones
I was creating a question on sp_readerrorlog and realized that this procedure is different...
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I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result? See possible answers