2019-03-04
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Editorial
2019-03-04
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Schema Security
This week Steve is wondering about the use of schemas for security or other purposes.
2019-03-01
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2020-02-06 (first published: 2019-02-28)
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The RDBMS is Often the Right Tool
Today Steve gives reasons why he thinks the RDBMS is often better than a NoSQL database of any sort.
2019-02-27
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Should the Data Lake be Immutable?
Data warehouses and lakes are often loaded from other data, so should they be immutable?
2019-02-26
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The Employee Target
Will employee data become a target of hackers? It's likely more a movie plot than reality, at least, Steve hopes so.
2019-02-25
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Dealing with Ugly Babies
One thing I learned while working as a database administrator over 17 years is the importance of teamwork across departments. Many times, we have to rely on network and SAN administrator to make changes to their environments in order to make SQL Server run more efficiently. There are times where the storage and network create […]
2019-02-25
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A Good Benefit?
A company is letting companies trade vacation for payments against student loan debt.
2019-02-22
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Treat All Sensitive Data as Important
No matter what the reason you have sensitive information, you need to treat it carefully.
2019-02-21
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Blogs
Giving AI Agents Visibility Into SQL Server with MCP
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an...
The Book of Redgate: Profits
By Steve Jones
Redgate is a for-profit company. We look to make money by building and selling...
Session Materials for Techorama & DataGrillen 2026
I’ve uploaded the slides for my Techorama session Microsoft Fabric for Dummies and my...
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