DBAs always tend to face many difficulties in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Brad McGehee encourages some debate on the best strategies to make this work, in the face of long working hours, and the desire to contribute fully to the SQL Server community.
2012-01-16
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Today's editorial was originally reprinted on Jun 17, 2007. It is being re-run as it is a holiday in the US. Today Steve Jones looks at Jonthan Schwartz, the former CEO of SUN who took over from the founder, Scott McNealy.
2012-01-16
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This Friday's poll asks you to tell us what you'd do if you won the lottery. Is there something that you'd rather be doing than your current job? Dream a little and let us know.
2012-01-13
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If you had less resources or compilation too longer, would you code more carefully? Steve Jones talks about the benefits that might come from not having the latest and greatest hardware.
2012-01-12
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Is the cloud secure? How can you be sure? Steve Jones talks a little about some ways you can try to check on your cloud provider.
2012-01-11
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Synonyms were added to SQL Server to make the references to remote data easier. However Steve Jones doesn't use them, do you? Are there benefits?
2012-01-10
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Today we have a guest editorial from Phil Factor. Phil wonders why so many people in technology can be stubborn. Are you a stubborn DBA?
2012-01-09
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It always surprises me when Application programmers tell me that all 'Agile' techniques are directly applicable to database development. Ideally, yes; but reality gets in the way.
2012-01-09
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Today's poll looks at read only data and how you handle the backup and recovery of this data.
2012-01-06
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Internet Explorer is going to get automatic updates soon and Steve Jones thinks it's a mixed blessing.
2012-01-05
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I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
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