The Second Career
From a well-built cockney who knew how to avoid wheel clamps, to an ex-member of an elite anti-riot unit, some of the best DBAs have a surprising diversity of skills and experiences, according to Phil Factor.
2017-02-13
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Editorial
Moving Through Five Years
An updated editorial. The five years are almost up for the prediction that IT departments would be eliminated. Read Steve Jones thoughts on where we are today.
2017-02-10
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Why Devops? For Better Security
DevOps is supposed to help us build better software, faster. Steve Jones looks at one of the other benefits: security.
2017-02-09
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2017-02-08
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Would You Still Love Linux If Windows Was Free?
A guest editorial today looks at the OS debate: Windows v Linux.
2022-03-07 (first published: 2017-02-07)
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A View of the Cloud
Today Steve Jones looks at how we can better build software by considering the cloud.
2017-02-06
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Close Encounters of the CEIP Kind
Microsoft's Customer Experience Improvement Program for SQL Server: once easy to avoid, now hard to ignore, but Rodney Landrum sees an upside.
2017-02-06
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Your Favorite Feature that Needs Work
This week Steve Jones asks what parts of SQL Server would you improve and why.
2017-02-03
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The Great and Powerful Internet of Things
A look at the good, and bad, of the IoT world along with the potential future.
2017-02-02
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A Wide Variation in Skill
We all have different levels of skills, and it's not always because we don't try. Sometimes it's a question of timing.
2017-01-31
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Forums
SSMS 22 Latest Update Crashing
Hi all, I've just had to roll back my SSMS 22 version from 22.3.0,...
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Power of Data and...
Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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