Mini-Me
This Friday Steve Jones asks if you build your own mini-me's to help you manage your database systems.
2008-11-19
86 reads
Editorial - MP3
E-Discovery and Data Retention
While most DBAs might never encounter the legal aspects of their professional, Phil Factor brings to light a few things that you might want to be aware of in these litigious times.
2008-11-19
1,177 reads
Trust But Verify
As data professionals we need to be sure that we can present back the data we receive. Perhaps other people should embrace this mantra in other lines of work.
2008-11-18
89 reads
Go Open
Is Open Source something you should examine with the economy diving down? Steve Jones talks about a few of the issues.
2008-11-17
876 reads
BYOC
With people becoming smarter about technology, does it make sense for them to choose their own computer? Steve Jones thinks so.
2008-11-16
796 reads
Ethics in IT - Database Weekly (Nov 17, 2008)
Employers say they're looking for more ethics and morals in IT for 2009. Steve Jones hopes it's true.
2008-11-16
1,016 reads
How Productive Are You?
We all deal with inefficiencies at work, but how efficient are we ourselves? Steve Jones takes a poll this Friday.
2008-11-13
147 reads
Twitter Your Issues
Twitter is one of those interesting Web 2.0 ideas that is hard to analyze. Is it valuable? Steve Jones might have an idea for how it could be used by DBAs.
2008-11-12
810 reads
Fix the Little Things
There are any number of small, annoying or tedious things in SQL Server and Steve Jones makes a case for getting them fixed.
2008-11-11
1,148 reads
DBA Value
Are DBAs worth more to a company than other types of IT employees? Steve Jones has some thoughts about the salary ranges for DBAs today.
2008-11-10
893 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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