The Relational Manager
Managing DBAs can be a challenge for both sides. Steve Jones talks a bit about some of his relationships with managers and the trouble that sometimes occurs.
2008-09-30
247 reads
Editorial
The New Leader - Database Weekly (Sept 29, 2008)
A new SQL Server system has claimed the top spots in the TPC-E benchmark, but Steve Jones doesn't think it's that impressive.
2008-09-29
49 reads
The September 2008 Car Update
This month's car update focuses mainly on the Prius and changes that might coming in the car industry.
2008-09-29
172 reads
Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Read the first page of the linked article and then cast your vote in this Friday's poll.
2013-08-16 (first published: 2008-09-26)
540 reads
Prometheus
The myth of Prometheus has some relevance to technology workers. How? Read what Steve Jones thinks.
2008-09-25
141 reads
DLP Technology
Steve Jones isn't talking about his new television, but rather a new technology dealing with data and databases.
2008-09-24
139 reads
The Agile Cult
Lots of developers have embraced Agile development, and Steve Jones thinks it's a good way to build software. However, it's not necessarily as easy as you might think.
2013-07-23 (first published: 2008-09-23)
368 reads
Good Data Loss - Database Weekly (Sept 22, 2008)
As we retain more and more data, it becomes important not just to decide how long to retain different types of data, but also to identify that data that can be removed. Steve Jones talks about some of the challenges of this with databases.
2008-09-22
57 reads
Face to Face
The cost of fuel is rising, telecommuting is becoming more widespread, and the advance of digital technologies has us often working virtually, even in the same office. Steve Jones thinks we shouldn't forget the value of a little face time and and then.
2008-09-22
72 reads
The Glue that Binds
This Friday Steve Jones polls the community of developers about the time they spend dealing with data access.
2008-09-19
124 reads
Blogs
Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
By Zikato
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
Becoming a creator, my website experience
By DataOnWheels
Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...
T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
Forums
Collecting active node hostname at centralized location
So folks we have around 30/40 sql server failover cluster insatnce with each having...
Beginner in sql server
Hello, How to add a UNIX_TIMESTAMP at my publish_date please CREATE TABLE [dbo].[latest_info]( [id]...
fast farward curson vs while loop on @table
hi, need to known weather fast farwand cursor is faster than a while loop...
Question of the Day
Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers