DevOps at Microsoft
Microsoft has dramatically changed the way they develop software, in a very public way, as Steve Jones notes.
2016-09-27
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Editorial
Don't tell the boss
Why would I want the boss to be able to see so easily every little bad thing that happens on my servers? Grant Fritchey offers a few reasons...
2016-09-26
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The Black Boxes
The world of machine learning and artificial intelligence are growing. Steve Jones notes this means we need to decide if we can trust the black boxes.
2016-09-26
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What Helps You Learn?
This Friday Steve Jones looks to find out what things help people learn and build skills more readily.
2016-09-23
80 reads
Capture the Flag
A competition among software bots may foretell a vision of the future for software developers.
2016-09-22
84 reads
Are You a Tech Company?
Is your company a tech company? Steve Jones looks at the world from the perspective of software development and how that impacts business.
2021-08-27 (first published: 2016-09-20)
137 reads
Why We Need Backups First
This week Steve Jones notes that backups aren't the most important thing for your data. Restores are.
2016-09-19
99 reads
The 10X Programmer
Today Steve Jones discusses the mythical 10x programmer from the context of databases.
2020-09-24 (first published: 2016-09-19)
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2020-09-25 (first published: 2016-09-16)
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Data Science Education
Data Science is a hot area and one to which quite a few people would like to move. Steve Jones has some thoughts on trying to get certified in this area.
2016-09-15
164 reads
Blogs
The Mystery of the Locked-Up Database -Scooby Dooing Episode 6
No Scooby-Doo story is complete without footprints leading to a hidden passage. In SQL...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
By James Serra
A bunch of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community...
The Challenge of Implicit Transactions: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw an article recently about implicit transactions and coincidentally, I had a friend...
Forums
Compatibility levels on database changing them and impacts.
We’re running SQL Server 2019 with database compatibility level 150, and after recent tuning...
Changing the Recovery Time
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Question of the Day
Changing the Recovery Time
I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers