A Really Good Job
Today Steve Jones talks about how you can find a really good job. And how you can make changes in your life to get you there.
2012-07-25
322 reads
Editorial
Leveling the Field
Today Steve Jones talks about the ability of cloud services to level the field when it comes to software, especially for small companies.
2012-07-24
93 reads
Security is Improving
Today Steve Jones notes that security is improving at many web sites. It's not great, but it's improving. That's a good sign, or is it?
2012-07-23
106 reads
What to look for in an employer
A Job interview for a database Developer is, or should be, a two-way process. They are sussing you out, and you are sussing them out.
2012-07-23
210 reads
Stack Ranking
This Friday Steve Jones talks performance reviews. The system in place at Microsoft is a tough one, which allows some to thrive, and some not to. Is it one you'd like to have in place?
2012-07-20
209 reads
Using Technology In New Ways
An interesting reuse of technology in a completely new way caught Steve Jones' eye. See if you agree that this is rather amazing.
2012-07-19
144 reads
Geeky Books
Today Steve Jones talks about one of his pastimes: reading. He recommends you read more, and share the books you enjoy.
2012-07-18
239 reads
Time Zones
Today Steve Jones complains a bit about time zone support in SQL Server and why it seems so cumbersome. Shouldn't it be easier in 2012?
2012-07-17
300 reads
A Cool Job
Today's editorial was originally published on August 21, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is traveling. What a cool job it must be to try and tune and get the most performance out of a system.
2012-07-16
159 reads
Write Better Code
Better security can be achieved by writing better code. Steve Jones agrees, but doesn't think it's as easy as it sounds.
2012-07-16
262 reads
Blogs
Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
By Zikato
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
Becoming a creator, my website experience
By DataOnWheels
Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...
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...
Forums
Collecting active node hostname at centralized location
So folks we have around 30/40 sql server failover cluster insatnce with each having...
Beginner in sql server
Hello, How to add a UNIX_TIMESTAMP at my publish_date please CREATE TABLE [dbo].[latest_info]( [id]...
fast farward curson vs while loop on @table
hi, need to known weather fast farwand cursor is faster than a while loop...
Question of the Day
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