Celebration
Steve Jones reminisces a bit and comments on reaching one million members in the community.
2009-01-29
78 reads
Editorial
Earning Credit
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
2009-01-28
369 reads
The January 2009 Car Update
With the start of a new year, Steve Jones gets back to the car updates with a look at winter driving and changes in the car industry.
2009-01-27
142 reads
The Cost of Reboots
Would you want to have your pay docked for time spent rebooting? It seems some companies are trying to do just that.
2009-01-26
239 reads
DBAs and the art of persuasion
How does a DBA go about "pitching" for money for a software tool, or any other resource? And what factors affect the likelihood of success? We all think we know, but could we do this part of the job more effectively?
2009-01-26
84 reads
2009-01-23
214 reads
Risk and Assumptions
Building software always involves risk, but in these tough times, Steve Jones thinks we should be working to lower the risk of IT projects.
2013-09-13 (first published: 2009-01-22)
207 reads
Secure Cell Phones
With the inauguration of a new President in the US, will he give up his Blackberry? Steve Jones found an alternative that was surprising.
2009-01-21
145 reads
Managing Your IT Data
A new application manages data from your IT machines and software, but doesn't use a database. Steve Jones talks a little about this. (This editorial was originally published on Jan 20, 2009. It is being re-run as Steve is at SQL Bits.)
2013-05-02 (first published: 2009-01-20)
270 reads
Virtual Memory - Database Weekly (Jan 19, 2009)
Virtual memory is something we deal with in Windows systems, but Steve Jones talks about a different kind of virtual memory this week.
2009-01-19
302 reads
Blogs
Local LLM Models at SQL Saturday Boston 2025
By Steve Jones
I’m starting a long trip at Boston this weekend. I’ll be there Saturday speaking,...
3 things you must do to start data quality management right
As a data & AI strategist who’s seen countless projects succeed and fail, I...
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server
By SQLPals
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server Not long ago,...
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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