Code Scanning
Today Steve Jones talks about code scanning and the analysis that tools can do for us today.
2012-03-05
195 reads
Editorial
High Availability Upgrades
Today Steve Jones has a poll about the new AlwaysOn feature in SQL Server 2012. Is it worth the upgrade for your company?
2012-03-02
258 reads
Data Compression Double Take
A lot has been written about the potential performance benefits of SQL Server data compression; but hard performance data? Not so much.
2012-03-01
334 reads
Use the 4th Dimension
Today Steve Jones talks about the conflicting demands of home and work and how you can reconcile the requirements of both.
2012-03-01
195 reads
The Cloud is good for your career
Is the cloud good for your career? Steve Jones thinks so, and gives you a few reasons you might want to learn more about it.
2012-02-29
261 reads
Taking a Sabbatical
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is on vacation. Today Andy discusses sabbaticals, and a change in his life.
2012-02-28
153 reads
The Power of Hadoop
Hadoop is an open source framework for working with data, and one that Microsoft has adopted. Is it worth using in your environment? Steve Jones thinks you should investigate it.
2012-02-27
783 reads
Call That a Database? This is a Database.
If only the English language had a range of words to describe all the different types of database, there would be so much less confusion in the industry.
2012-02-27
276 reads
A Break from Databases
A Friday poll that's a break from work, and should be a bit of fun. Today Steve Jones asks about movies, and what's been interesting from the last year.
2012-02-24
155 reads
Future Virtual Machines
What's the benefit of virtual machines and hypervisors? Steve Jones has a few comments on them and their future.
2012-02-23
335 reads
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: ServiceNow Integration
By Steve Jones
Earlier this year I visited a customer that was using the Redgate Monitor webhook...
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...
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Question of the Day
The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
What is returned? See possible answers