Expect an Attack
Most companies in a recent survey expect to get hacked this year. Steve Jones wishes that the technological leaders would help everyone develop more secure code by publishing more information.
2009-06-24
156 reads
Editorial
Becoming a DBA
Steve Jones was recently asked how he knows someone is ready to be a DBA. It's an interesting question and he shares some thoughts on this today.
2009-06-23
337 reads
Grown Up Software
We all want to write better software, but do we really want to write grown up software? Steve Jones talks about one of the most successful software groups ever.
2009-06-22
169 reads
Lax Security - Database Weekly (June 22, 2009)
This week Steve Jones talks about database security, or the lack thereof, in today's world.
2009-06-22
111 reads
Going Native
This Friday Steve Jones asks about advice for other DBAs. What's the best way for those intermediate and accidental DBAs to handle maintenance on their servers?
2009-06-19
133 reads
The Best Minds
What do you want when you go to a conference? Great speakers or great information? Steve Jones talks a little about how we get both in the future.
2009-06-18
70 reads
Why Object Databases will always be Tomorrow's Technology
For many years now we always seem to have been on the verge of the revolution in object databases, without it ever quite transpiring. Why is this?
2017-02-21 (first published: 2009-06-17)
740 reads
The Simple Estimate
Why can't it be easy for someone to tackle small projects? It is in some areas, and Steve Jones talks a little about some of the issues.
2009-06-16
98 reads
Are You an Exceptional DBA?
The Exceptional DBA award is back again in 2009. Steve Jones comments a little on his experience last year.
2009-06-15
184 reads
Barriers to Virtualization
Virtualization, and use of the 'cloud', will be essential to the deployment of new applications, but will existing applications will be quite so amenable?
2009-06-15
273 reads
Blogs
The Mystery of the Locked-Up Database -Scooby Dooing Episode 6
No Scooby-Doo story is complete without footprints leading to a hidden passage. In SQL...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
By James Serra
A bunch of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community...
The Challenge of Implicit Transactions: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw an article recently about implicit transactions and coincidentally, I had a friend...
Forums
Compatibility levels on database changing them and impacts.
We’re running SQL Server 2019 with database compatibility level 150, and after recent tuning...
Changing the Recovery Time
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Question of the Day
Changing the Recovery Time
I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers