The Value of Your Time
DBAs are expensive, so isn't their time valuable? Are you aware of what you cost the company and use your time wisely? Steve Jones talks a bit about how to choose on what you should be working.
2009-02-17
744 reads
Editorial - MP3
State Models - Database Weekly (Feb 16, 2009)
Testing software is important, and the use of state models can help. This week Steve Jones talks about a new book that exposes software testing at Microsoft.
2009-02-13
830 reads
Conservative or Risky?
What type of leadership do you want in your company? Steve Jones asks who you want to help steward you through these tough economic times.
2009-02-12
557 reads
Global Warming and Business Intelligence
What does global warming have to do with BI? Steve Jones explains.
2009-02-11
623 reads
The New Office
A tour of the new Red Gate Software offices from Steve Jones, looking at how a modern software company has set up it's space.
2009-02-10
674 reads
Trust
Trust is a big part of any DBA's job. But it seems that many people in society trust each other less and less all the time. Steve Jones has a few comments on this important subject.
2009-02-09
89 reads
The Oscars
As Steve Jones heads off for holiday, he asks a Friday poll question that should distract you from work for a few minutes.
2009-01-29
840 reads
Celebration
Steve Jones reminisces a bit and comments on reaching one million members in the community.
2009-01-28
777 reads
Earning Credit
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
2009-01-27
805 reads
The January 2009 Car Update
With the start of a new year, Steve Jones gets back to the car updates with a look at winter driving and changes in the car industry.
2009-01-26
757 reads
Blogs
PASS Data Community Summit 2026
By Steve Jones
Yesterday was the first day of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit (after...
T-SQLTuesday 204: Are blogs still relevant?
This month’s blogging party is hosted by Jeff Ianucci – his challenge is to...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Switching Schemas I
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Enforcing Unique Customer Emails When Duplicates Already Exist
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Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers