What is a Database Administrator today?
Today we have a guest editorial from Jim Youmans that asks "what does it mean to be a DBA today?"
2013-12-06
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Editorial
The Future of Auditing
Auditing is a weak point in SQL Server according to Steve Jones. He looks at a few of its flaws.
2016-12-22 (first published: 2013-12-05)
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Competition or Cooperation
Would you rather work with people, or compete with them? Steve Jones has comments on the Microsoft Stack Ranking system that seems to encourage the latter.
2013-12-04
154 reads
Data Preservation
Today Steve Jones talks about the challenges of preserving data across long periods of time, decades perhaps.
2016-12-26 (first published: 2013-12-03)
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Is Your Data Relational?
An RDBMS is a good fit for many database problems, perhaps as Steve Jones thinks, the best fit for most. However NoSQL systems have a place, we're just not sure where.
2013-12-02
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The Abstract DBA
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Today Andy talks about his changing role as a DBA and how many tasks he doesn't need to handle anymore.
2013-11-29
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2013-11-28
99 reads
Visitor Parking
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. There are often issues with how we get along with each other at work. Andy asks how you might handle a tough decision over a simple problem.
2013-11-27
171 reads
Content in the Cloud
Steve Jones has some concerns over new options in SQL Server 2014 that might lead some customers to experiment in a way that causes them unexpected pain.
2013-11-25
76 reads
Core T-SQL
Steve Jones thinks there is a list of core skills that any database developer or DBA needs. This week he asks you for a list of those things you think should be included.
2017-11-03 (first published: 2013-11-22)
780 reads
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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