Truth and Demos
Today Steve Jones reminds us that we are all selling something in technology, even if it's our reputation. We ought to be truthful in our dealings with our clients.
2012-01-04
126 reads
Editorial
Cloud Patches
The cloud changes the way that we can administer and deploy changes to our systems. Steve Jones highlights an interesting idea, and hopes we get similar techniques applied to databases in the cloud.
2012-01-03
107 reads
SharePoint - Subversive?
A reflective editorial on how SharePoints and other collaborative work spaces are getting used.
2012-01-02
229 reads
Voluntary Constraint?
In which Phil Factor argues that Domain Constraints are a fundamental part of the relational database. If he had to sacrifice a feature of relational databases, it wouldn’t be domain constraints.
2012-01-02
104 reads
The Data Resolutions
The last Friday poll of 2011 has Steve Jones asking about what you want out of 2012.
2011-12-30
115 reads
2011-12-29
129 reads
Data and Privacy
Users often have a certain expectation of privacy about their data in applications, and as software engineers, Steve Jones thinks we need to respect that.
2011-12-28
97 reads
Set a Networking Goal For The Year
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Today Any asks you to think about your career and your network for 2012.
2011-12-27
99 reads
All I want for Christmas
This Friday before Christmas, Steve Jones has a fun poll. What would you like for Christmas? Any fun, interesting, fascinating tech toys?
2011-12-23
98 reads
GOTO and T-SQL
Today we have a guest editorial from Phil Factor as Steve is on vacation. This piece looks at the complaints against GOTO and whether they are valid.
2011-12-22
860 reads
Blogs
Why Databases Still Fascinate Me
By Chris Yates
I get asked a lot about why or how I began working with databases...
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....
Forums
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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