Clearing the Bar
How do you decide who gets hired? Do you get the best candidate? Steve Jones says that most of us don't necessarily hire the best person that applies for a variety of reasons.
2008-01-15
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Editorial
The Weekly Editorial
Our weekly commentary on SQL Server news and notes from the week ending 1/12/08.
2008-01-14
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Digital Storage
Digital technologies have made the transfer of information easier than ever, but what about it's long term storage? That doesn't seem to be as easy as we might think.
2008-01-14
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Keynotes
This Friday we look forward to the various tech events of 2008 and which speakers you think are worth seeing. This editorial was originally published on Jan 11, 2008. It is being re-run as Steve is traveling.
2012-12-07 (first published: 2008-01-11)
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A Little Variety
Do we really need to corner the market for our particular business? Steve Jones talks about the need to grow your business at the expense of others.
2008-01-10
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The Backup Myth
Running backups is enough for disaster recovery, right? That's a myth that could get you into trouble. Steve Jones explains there's more that's needed.
2008-01-09
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Losing Your Job
It's not easy to lose your job, but it can be done if you aren't performing. What concerns Steve Jones is someone recently lost their job for their behavior on their own personal time.
2008-01-08
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Myths
Every profession has its share of myths about how it works. IT might have more than its share and Steve Jones comments on a few of them.
2008-01-07
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College Life
Life at college is good. It's a time in many people's lives that they'll never forget. Steve Jones asks if you'd want to go back to your adult roots.
2008-01-04
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Corporate Programming Sucks
Does it suck to be a corporate programmer? Joel Spolsky things so, but Steve Jones takes issue with it.
2008-01-03
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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