Despite my misgivings about the fall from favor of technology books, I was heartened to hear from the developers at Red Gate that the classic books on the art of programming are still important to them. What are the equivalent books for DBAs?
2009-03-23
452 reads
Someone is trying to build a better query engine for the web, something beyond a search engine. Steve Jones comments on the possible implications for databases if this works.
2009-03-23
185 reads
This Friday's poll looks at your productivity. Is there some technology that has really helped you do your job better?
2009-03-20
152 reads
Writing secure programs is hard. Steve Jones has a few comments on what some of the issues are with training developers.
2013-10-02 (first published: 2009-03-19)
521 reads
It is ingrained in many developers and DBAs to keep transactions in SQL Server "as short as possible". Why does this mindset exist? Does it imply a deep-seated lack of confidence in the scalability of SQL Server's locking and concurrency models?
2009-03-18
183 reads
Will we see a low-cost SQL Server knock-off at some point? Steve Jones thinks it could happen as the RDBMS becomes a commodity product.
2013-10-29 (first published: 2009-03-17)
291 reads
Having employees leave your company is a reality of life. But how do you handle letting your IT workers go and protect your systems? Steve Jones isn't sure there is much you can do to prevent issues, but you can deal with them.
2013-10-09 (first published: 2009-03-16)
366 reads
In the news this week, Microsoft is cutting some licensing costs for larger companies. A good move for them as the economy slows.
2009-03-16
84 reads
As we build more sophisticated maintenance procedures, we increase the complexity of our systems. Is that a good thing? Steve Jones has a few comments on what this means for DBAs.
2009-03-12
210 reads
The Northwind database has a place in our collective hearts, despite all efforts to displace it in favor of AdventureWorks. However, a lot has happened in the past twelve or so years, and Phil Factor wonders if we can't, as a community, do better.
2009-03-11
163 reads
By Vinay Thakur
The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related...
My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well,...
By Steve Jones
At the Redgate Summits this year, we’ve highlighted a few things in the Flyway...
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
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I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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