SQL Profanities
Do you avoid certain SQL functionality because you have been told you should NEVER use it?
2008-08-11
70 reads
Editorial - iPod
The Starting Point
The Mojave Experiment is a marketing effort by Microsoft that is very interesting in looking at first impressions. Steve Jones comments.
2008-08-10
71 reads
Bill Baker - Database Weekly (Aug 11, 2008)
This weeks Database Weekly looks at a longtime leader for the Microsoft SQL Server development team leaving the company.
2008-08-08
62 reads
2008-08-06
68 reads
2008-08-06
63 reads
2008-08-05
60 reads
Un-retiring
Would you leave technology and come back to it as a career? It seems that many people are afraid of doing it, but Steve Jones talks about why it shouldn't matter.
2008-08-04
75 reads
Pimp My Data Center
Steve Jones talks about the changing capabilities and flexibilities of data centers as technologies change.
2008-08-03
67 reads
Infinite Seizure - Database Weekly (2008/8/4)
This week's Database Weekly editorial examines the US policy of potentially seizing laptops for an infinite period when you enter the country.
2008-08-02
531 reads
Social Profiling
This Friday Steve Jones talks about the social networking phenomenon and asks how it should affect your career?
2008-07-31
62 reads
Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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