All the Costs of Downtime
Downtime causes a lot of problems, not all of which are financial for an organization.
2025-09-22
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Business Improvement
Shorten the Debate
Steve talks about the process of decision making with idea for shortening the time taken.
2025-06-09
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2025-04-09
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A Staffing Disaster
An Azure datacenter had a failure after an incident, partially because they didn't have enough people. Steve notes that staffing is a challenge in many ways.
2023-09-29
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Running a Service
The way we view our jobs might change how we do them. Steve has some advice on how to think about the work you do.
2023-09-27
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Coaching the Digital Transformation
Helping your business get value from a digital transformation can start within your own team or group.
2023-02-08
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Outsourcing Operations
When I first started working in technology in the 90s, it was a time of outsourcing lots of work overseas. Many large companies followed the wave of manufacturing in the 70s and 80s by many companies, including lots of semi-conductor manufacturers. I watched as a number of jobs moved overseas, though fortunately not mine. In […]
2023-02-06
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T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers