Not So Unbreakable
Oracle touted its database software as unbreakable, but many security researchers think the company is not spending enough effort on security. Steve Jones has a few comments.
2011-12-08
119 reads
Editorial
Sharing Your Database Server
Is is time to consider sharing your database server with other applications? Steve Jones thinks with today's powerful servers and changes to licensing, this might make sense.
2011-12-07
151 reads
Layers of Security
A good security scheme will contain many layers. Today Steve Jones talks about one of those: good habits.
2011-12-06
171 reads
Not having TDE in all editions is stupid
Transparent Data Encryption is only available in Enterprise Edition and above. Steve Jones thinks that's a mistake.
2011-12-05
112 reads
2016-04-05 (first published: 2011-12-05)
459 reads
A Welcome Intruder
This Friday Steve Jones asked about penetration testing of your security. Have any of you ever tested your systems?
2011-12-02
109 reads
Fast Migrations
Virtualization is an important technology for anyone working with servers, and as vendors look to improve the performance of their hypervisors, this technology might be more important for data professionals to understand.
2011-12-01
124 reads
A Refreshing Break
Steve Jones talks about his recent vacation break and one change that made it a huge success.
2011-11-30
113 reads
Thinking Time
Do you get time to stop and think, without being pressured to solve a specific problem? Steve Jones notes that it's important to get that creative time to grow and produce better work.
2011-11-29
213 reads
Little Love Lost for SMO
SMO is a very useful way of automating a wide range of routine database jobs, but Phil Factor laments Microsoft's apparent ambivalence towards the technology, including a lack of anything remotely resembling adequate documentation.
2011-11-28
199 reads
Blogs
Why Databases Still Fascinate Me
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I get asked a lot about why or how I began working with databases...
Monday Monitor Tips: ServiceNow Integration
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Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
By Zikato
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
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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