2019-03-04
111 reads
Editorial
Schema Security
This week Steve is wondering about the use of schemas for security or other purposes.
2019-03-01
502 reads
2020-02-06 (first published: 2019-02-28)
383 reads
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
91 reads
Should the Data Lake be Immutable?
Data warehouses and lakes are often loaded from other data, so should they be immutable?
2019-02-26
808 reads
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
80 reads
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
65 reads
A Good Benefit?
A company is letting companies trade vacation for payments against student loan debt.
2019-02-22
72 reads
Treat All Sensitive Data as Important
No matter what the reason you have sensitive information, you need to treat it carefully.
2019-02-21
66 reads
2019-02-20
64 reads
Blogs
Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
Forums
Increase Deadlock Detection
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Increase Deadlock Detection
A Tool is Better than a Script
Comments posted to this topic are about the item A Tool is Better than...
Understanding Deadlock Victim Selection in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Understanding Deadlock Victim Selection in...
Question of the Day
Increase Deadlock Detection
How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
See possible answers