Social Software
More and more companies are looking to use social software, like Facebook, to link employees, but is this a good thing?
2008-03-27
185 reads
Editorial
Bad Automation
Coming up with ways to do things automatically with software can be a boon to productivity, but not every idea is a good one.
2008-03-26
115 reads
March Madness
How disruptive is the annual college basketball tournament to work? Steve Jones doesn't think it's a problem.
2008-03-25
55 reads
Feature (In)Complete
A look at some of the interesting database news from the previous week (March 24, 2008).
2008-03-24
206 reads
A Bad Report Card
The Federal Communications Commission doesn't get a good report on it's data handling and management processes.
2008-03-24
62 reads
Sharing
As humans we look to share with each other, but there are times that this can be a bad thing. Steve Jones has a poll asking you about your sharing habits.
2008-03-21
81 reads
Human Power
It's incredible what humans can accomplish when they work on a problem with passion. This editorial was originally published on Mar 20, 2008. It is being re-run as Steve is on vacation.
2012-11-19 (first published: 2008-03-20)
308 reads
Fire Drills
How often do you have those fire drills, testing what you would do in the event of an emergency. Would you be satisfied with a 30% success rate?
2008-03-19
95 reads
Get Rid of the Indexes
An idea that could save time and resources for backup and recovery in SQL Server.
2008-03-18
393 reads
SQL Server Data Services
SQL Server isn’t used much for web-based applications, simply because the cheapest ISPs use Linux and Apache for their platform. There are ISPs that provide a .NET platform and SQL Server but it is at a cost. SSDS seems to be Microsoft’s latest attempt to break into the market for database-driven websites.
2008-03-17
154 reads
Blogs
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The Max PK Length
If I create a multiple column Primary Key constraint, what is the most number of bytes I can include in the constraint?
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