The Value of an MBA in IT
Do you have an MBA? If so, has it helped you? Is it worth getting one for someone in IT? Ted Pin comments.
2008-07-10
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Editorial
What's an MVP?
What does it mean to be an MVP for Microsoft? Steve Jones talks about what the award is and what it means to get the award.
2008-07-09
328 reads
Land Mines
Security can be a hassle, but Steve Jones talks about why we sometimes put up with the difficulties of implementing strong security.
2008-07-08
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Enough is Enough
When do you decide that enough is enough? When does it make sense to let some bugs go and fix them later? Steve Jones comments on the decisions you sometimes make.
2008-07-07
141 reads
The Database Weekly Update for July 7, 2008
Intel is moving in the direction of more and more cores on a single CPU, so what does that mean for programmers?
2008-07-07
34 reads
Happy 4th of July
A blooper collection of mistakes and errors from a variety of editorials on this holiday weekend.
2008-07-04
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2008-07-03
194 reads
Driving Value
Does your IT organization bring value to your company? Steve Jones takes a look at some of the ways you can do this. This editorial was originally published on July 2, 2008. It is being re-published as Steve is at SQL Intersection.
2013-04-09 (first published: 2008-07-02)
152 reads
Data Rich and Information Poor
Do you deal with data or information? Do you know the difference and are you transforming one into the other. Steve Jones comments on the state of many companies' data.
2008-07-01
128 reads
The Database Weekly Update for June 30, 2008
Steve Jones looks back at a week of news on data center infrastructure, the EF war, and SQL Server 2008 news.
2008-06-30
37 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say
By Steve Jones
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate...
Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
Query Intelligence in SQL Server 2025: What Developers Need to Know
By Chris Yates
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change...
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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?
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