The outage at Amazon's Web Services recently affected a lot of different companies. However not everyone was affected. The reach of the cloud and the competition for attention means that while we have to learn to expect failures, they are not necessarily evenly distributed.
2011-05-05
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Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. We still have many applications runnning under sysadmin accounts, often "sa". Why do people do this? Andy has a few thoughts on the subject.
2015-12-21 (first published: 2011-05-04)
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The recent Amazon AWS outage was blamed on human error. Steve Jones notes that the more interconnected our systems are, the more likely that a human error might cause cascades between the systems.
2011-05-03
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This week Brad McGehee asks if your company is a 100% Microsoft software shop or if you are allowed to use third party software with your SQL Server.
2011-05-02
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More cloud talk today as the Air Force is building a new intelligence sharing system in the cloud? Why the cloud? Is the cloud really better?
2011-05-02
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Temporary indexes can speed up processes that run periodically in your applications. This Friday Steve Jones asks how many of you use temporary indexes and how you do so.
2011-04-29
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When should you hire a DBA? Always, of course! Actually Steve Jones doesn't have an answer, but he does talk about why a DBA can help you.
2011-04-28
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Computer Systems are aging and as companies try to save money by extending their lifetimes, are we going to see more issues?
2011-04-27
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Steve Jones talks telecommuting today as a recent survey shows that a third of IT professionals would take less pay to work away from the office.
2011-04-26
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Life is short, and Steve Jones reminds us to live for today, even as we invest in ourselves for the future.
2011-04-25
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By Andy Warren
Somehow two years have elapsed since my last update; hopefully it won’t be that...
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If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
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I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The North Star for the...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers