The Service Pack Fiasco
The recent SQL Server 2014 Service Pack fiasco wasn't the first, but hopefully it won't be the last.
2015-05-11
205 reads
Editorial
Not Only a Meeting of Minds, but of Open Minds.
In which Phil Factor claims that professional application development requires a broad knowledge base.
2015-05-11
99 reads
How Virtualized?
This week's poll asks about virtualization in your environment. Let us know if you are moving your SQL Server to virtual machines.
2019-03-20 (first published: 2015-05-08)
187 reads
vNext 2016
Steve Jones looks at the next version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2016. Until this week, it was known as vNext.
2015-05-07
270 reads
Idempotent
There are all sorts of coding practices that produce better code. Steve Jones talks about one today.
2024-11-04 (first published: 2015-05-06)
551 reads
Can Auditing Fail?
It doesn't seem to be a feature that an auditing system can fail, but the application being audited continues to run.
2018-10-26 (first published: 2015-05-05)
140 reads
2015-05-04
57 reads
Complete Definitions
When we write scripts, we often assume many settings will be at some default value. When we generate scripts, that's not the case. Perhaps we should be sure that we always include the settings we expect.
2015-05-04
123 reads
Finding Problem Code
This week Steve Jones has a poll on performance tuning code. Since many people aren't experts, the answers this week might help them learn where to focus their efforts.
2015-05-01
219 reads
Is It Time to Upgrade?
Today Steve Jones looks at the reasons for upgrading, or not, from SQL Server 2005.
2015-04-30
192 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Training Employees
By Steve Jones
Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well...
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
SQL Server Migration Overview
By Kevin3NF
It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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Why Data Modelling Still Matters - More Than Ever
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hops from sql server to mysql to s4 hana - possible?
Hi when i think of server hops , i think of how kerberos assists...
Question of the Day
Strange String Splits
When I run this code, how many rows are returned?
DECLARE @meals NVARCHAR(1000) = N'夕食昼食朝食' DECLARE @s NVARCHAR(1) = N'食' SELECT value FROM STRING_SPLIT(@meals, @s) GOSee possible answers