Serious Storage
Steve Jones talks about the serious storage that EMC is bringing to the Vatican library.
2013-03-19
200 reads
Editorial
The Backup Process
Today Steve Jones talks about backups. Setting up a process is good, but you cannot count on it working forever. You need to check periodically to be sure it's working, and that your skills are not deteriorating.
2013-03-18
196 reads
Inconsistency
This Friday Steve Jones notes that changing and altering your opinions is good and invites you to share things you might have learned that changed your mind in the past.
2013-03-15
129 reads
The Gambler
If you are the type of person that doesn't run DBCC checks, Steve Jones thinks you're a gambler. And you might think about attending SQL Intersection next month in Vegas.
2013-03-14
212 reads
Resetting DMVs
Steve Jones asks the question why so much data in SQL Server is cleared when we restart an instance.
2013-03-13
177 reads
Self Describing Databases
Today Steve Jones gives his vision of the database in the future. He hopes that databases contain more information about not only their objects, but their needs, like backups and maintenance.
2013-03-12
354 reads
Cloud Services. Waiting for the 'paint to dry'?
Despite recent 'outages', The canny CIO will make use of the obvious advantages of public cloud services where it risks neither security or availability. Adoption of the Cloud services and platforms is going to be most effective where the Cloud’s advantages of rapid scalability can be harnessed.
2013-03-11
80 reads
Productivity and Accountability
The recent decision by Yahoo to end telecommuting elicits some comments from Steve Jones on the topic of remote work.
2013-03-07
156 reads
Two Plugs Away
The culture and practices at Valve are interesting to Steve Jones, but the desks really caught his eye.
2013-03-06
155 reads
Data We Don't Want
There's potentially an exploit that can download lots of data to a machine. This shouldn't be a concern for servers, but you never know.
2013-03-05
187 reads
Blogs
Back in the EU
By Steve Jones
I flew to Amsterdam last night and hopefully by the time this publishes I’ll...
The Feedback Multiplier: How Leaders Can Turn Input into Innovation
By Chris Yates
In every organization there is a hidden currency more valuable than capital, more enduring...
Setting up SQL Server S3 Object Storage Integration using MinIO with Docker Compose (Updated for SQL Server 2025)
Update for SQL Server 2025: This post and the GitHub repo have been updated for...
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The New SQL Server 2025 Data type
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