Working with passwords that provide enough security and are hard to crack is complicated enough. Most users want to simplify their lives with fewer passwords if possible. This Friday Steve Jones asks how you handle passwords across systems.
2009-09-18
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When you upgrade to a new server, there's more than just making sure that everything is ready to move, but do you clean house? Do you ever go back and ensure you're not moving things that you don't need?
2009-09-17
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The SQL Connections conference will be held this November in Las Vegas and Steve Jones is attending. See what he's interested in viewing at the event.
2009-09-16
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Most of us learn on the job, but is that the best way? If you could learn faster at a cost, would you pay it? Steve Jones talks a little bit about what he has done and what he would do today in today's editorial. What is a SQL Server education worth to you?
2009-09-15
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Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
2009-09-14
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Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.
2009-09-11
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There was a vulnerability announced in the SQL Server password system last week, but Steve Jones doesn't see this as much of an issue. Read his thoughts and see if you agree.
2009-09-09
500 reads
What's the best driver for your server? What's the best of anything? Steve Jones talks about how the experts determine this, and why there is no easy answer.
2009-09-08
103 reads
It's a holiday in the US and Steve Jones takes a day off with a blooper reel for the editorial.
2009-09-07
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When you deal with encryption in your database, Steve Jones thinks you add a layer of complexity to your backup and recovery process. Do you agree? Answer today's poll.
2009-09-04
727 reads
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
By Steve Jones
dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would...
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I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers