2008-05-08
35 reads
Editorial - iPod
Planes, Trains, and Cows?
New technologies often bring with them lots of new data. Steve Jones talks about some changes that we might see with new RFID technology being deployed in some industries.
2008-05-07
36 reads
Recognizing Talent
Microsoft made a sizeable big for Yahoo and Steve Jones talks about one of the more interesting aspects of that bid that didn't receive much press.
2008-05-06
41 reads
The Shortage of Programmers
Steve Jones thinks that programmers should be able to negotiate any deal they can and Joel Spolsky has no reason to be upset.
2008-05-04
38 reads
Database Weekly - May 5, 2008
A look back at the news of the past week dealing with SQL Injection, slow SQL Server growth and two level security.
2008-05-02
485 reads
Managing Disk Space
How often do you worry about your database size and free space? Steve Jones asks how you administer your SQL Server database space this Friday.
2008-05-01
34 reads
And You Thought You Had a Big Database
Steve Jones examines what big is these days and a few examples of what the largest database people in the world deal with.
2008-04-30
39 reads
Should I Buy a Kindle?
Steve Jones still thinks there is a lot of value in books, both fiction and non-fiction, but he's looking at e-Readers, specifically the Kindle from Amazon.
2008-04-29
28 reads
The March Car Update
Steve Jones' bimonthly update on the state of transportation and what's happening with his Prius.
2008-04-29
495 reads
The January Car Update - iPod
The bimonthly update looks at a compressed air car, the X-Prize, daily rentals, and hybrid pickups.
2008-04-29
504 reads
Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Advice I Like: Praise
By Steve Jones
Don’t reserve your kindest praise for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while...
Forums
Change Tracking Data Retention Options
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Using the FP-Growth Algorithm to Mine Useful Patterns in Data
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Question of the Day
Change Tracking Data Retention Options
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=4 xxx);What are the possible choices for xxx? See possible answers