What Counts for a DBA: Amnesia
Louis Davidson explains why DBAs often need a healthy dose of selective, enforced amnesia about the pain of previous failures.
2013-01-07
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Editorial
The $50,000 Laptop
The average value of a lost laptop has been found to be much more than you might expect. Steve Jones talks about a recent study.
2013-01-07
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DR Prep
This week Steve Jones asks how you might handle DR preparation or process differently in the new year.
2013-01-04
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All Flash
Should you think about using SSD storage in your SQL Server databases? Steve Jones thinks this might be something you should consider.
2013-01-03
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Hacked
Getting hacked is no fun. Today Steve Jones notes he's been hacked, in more ways than one and wants you to think about this at your workplace.
2017-03-28 (first published: 2013-01-02)
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2013-01-01
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'At-Rest Data-Leakage': The Euphemism
If you let working drives leave the building in a readable state, you’re unintentionally in the publishing business.
2012-12-31
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2012-12-31
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2013 Goals
For the last Friday poll of the year, Steve Jones looks ahead to 2013 and the goals you might set for your career.
2012-12-28
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2012-12-25
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say
By Steve Jones
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate...
Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
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Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers