Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is on vacation. Was this a good week for you? How do you know? Do you have a definition that helps you determine if it was a good week? Today Andy Warren talks about how we view our jobs.
2012-03-15
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Recently the Azure service had an outage and Steve Jones has a few comments on this and why it might not be worse than your own company's IT group.
2012-03-14
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Steve Jones wonders today if data professionals get a little too hung up on the consistency issues between servers.
2012-03-13
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This past week the big news in the SQL Server space was the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2012.
2012-03-12
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A great developer is worth more than an average one, but how much more? Steve Jones has a few thoughts for you to think about.
2016-05-30 (first published: 2012-03-12)
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This Friday Steve Jones wants to know about the older versions you are running in your production environments. Are you still using SQL Server 2000?
2012-03-09
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Steve Jones likes Service Broker as a scale out technology, but it hasn't caught on. He thinks more people should take a look at this technology and implement it in places where it fits well.
2012-03-08
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Does data have gravity? Will the law affect how applications are built and deployed? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2012-03-07
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Today we have an editorial originally published on Mar 13, 2007 that is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. This one looks at all the world's data.
2012-03-06
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A lot has been written about the potential performance benefits of SQL Server data compression; but hard performance data? Not so much.
2012-03-05
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By Steve Jones
Earlier this year I visited a customer that was using the Redgate Monitor webhook...
By Zikato
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
By DataOnWheels
Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...
Hi, we lost our sever sql2000 To restore database to a new one we...
Hi, since we lost our sql server 2000 server we are trying to restore...
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I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
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