Cloud Concerns
Security is a concern in the cloud, but should it be your number one concern? Steve Jones notes that business continuity might be a bigger issue.
2012-12-13
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Editorial
Disaster After Disaster
A disaster can easily lead to another disaster. Can you respond to multiple problems? Have you even considered the cascade effects of a large disaster?
2012-12-12
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Test Your Restores
Part of an effective response to a disaster situation is practice and testing of your skills and procedures. Steve Jones reminds us this is important today.
2012-12-11
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What Counts for a DBA: Being Replaceable
Louis Davidson describes why all DBAs should strive to be replaceable, and what that really means.
2012-12-10
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Grace Under Pressure
When a disaster strikes, how will you respond? Will you not only successfully recover, but will you do so with professionalism and grace under pressure? Steve Jones tells you how you can.
2012-12-10
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The Default DBA
Defaults are important since so many people just accept them. Steve Jones thinks that SQL Server needs to add more defaults to the setup program that might help DBAs better manage their systems.
2012-12-04
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Grow Your Skills
The idea of moving to the cloud is scary, but it will happen for many of us. If not at this job, perhaps at the next. Learning more about the cloud is something Steve Jones thinks you should consider.
2012-12-03
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Feedback is Encouraged
Microsoft is asking for feedback, more and more from customers. Steve Jones sees that as a good thing.
2012-12-03
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Staging Deployments
This week Steve Jones is asking if you stage your database changes ahead of application changes.
2017-04-07 (first published: 2012-11-30)
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Don't Explain Too Much
Having management get too involved in technical details can cause problems. Steve Jones notes that technical people should minimize the details when communicating with management.
2012-11-29
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Blogs
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
Learning Tool – Deepstash
By Brian Kelley
A few months ago I started using Deepstash. Deepstash breaks books into the key...
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The Data API Builder MCP Server Tools
The Data API Builder MCP Server, v2.x, includes a number of tools. What actions can these tools perform in your database?
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