Regular Audit Analysis
This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you handle audit data in your environment. Do you regularly analyze the data? Or do you wait for something to go wrong before you check the data.
2011-06-24
133 reads
Editorial
The Age of Software
Does the age of software matter? Steve Jones talks about this after there was a decision for the SQL 11 tools not to support Windows XP.
2011-06-23
270 reads
More Regulation Coming?
With no end to company hack attacks in sight, will we get new regulation instead?
2015-06-16 (first published: 2011-06-22)
209 reads
Excel in the Clouds
Today Steve Jones talks about a new use for cloud computing with Excel to analyze large sets of data.
2011-06-21
163 reads
Archiving
It seems that archival isn't on the mind of most designers when they first build a database, which is OK, but DBAs ought to be building skills to implement this if the data size grows large.
2011-06-20
740 reads
Patch Week
This week Steve Jones notes there were quite a few patches from Microsoft for a variety of products. No SQL Server specific security patches, but that doesn't mean that DBAs shouldn't be patching systems.
2011-06-20
135 reads
Multiple Failures
This Friday Steve Jones has a disaster recovery poll. When you have a true disaster, often there are multiple things that go wrong and cause a cascading failure. Is this common, let us know what your experience is this Friday.
2011-06-17
112 reads
Phrases that Resonate
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Are there particular phrases that you use in technology that resonate with you and have particular meanings? Andy shares a few of his favorites.
2011-06-16
153 reads
Understanding Security
It is important for data professionals to understand security, but it's also important for end users that must handle data. However we have a lot of work to do to make that easier since Steve Jones thinks many IT pros struggle with this concept.
2011-06-15
282 reads
Etiquette
As technology has rapidly advanced our communications, we have not necessarily learned to deal with the implications and challenges of this anywhere, anytime communication reach. Steve Jones reminds us that etiquette matters, even when we are designing systems.
2011-06-14
219 reads
Blogs
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Forums
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Ephemeral Model: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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QUOTENAME Behavior
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QUOTENAME Behavior
I use QUOTENAME() like this in code?
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(20) = 'Steve Jones' SELECT QUOTENAME(@s, '>')What is returned? See possible answers