Dexterity Matters
The individual's dexterity can impact how we use software. Perhaps we need ways to undo mistakes in various systems.
2016-03-28
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Editorial
2016-03-28
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Protecting sa
Today Steve Jones talks about the issues with the sa account, and how you might protect this on all your instances.
2016-03-25
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Do Less
One way to make code run faster is to have less of it. Or ensure the code you have does less work.
2016-03-24
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2016-03-22
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On-Time, or Not
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at the respect, understanding and compromise we might make with each other.
2016-03-21
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The New Men of IT
According to the New Men of IT, the industry changes so frequently that experience and qualifications quickly become obsolete and irrelevant. The argument won't wash with Phil Factor.
2016-03-21
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2016-03-17
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The Math on Automation
Is it worth automating things? Many people say yes, but Steve Jones says it isn't just about time saved.
2016-03-16
140 reads
SQL Server on Linux
There was an announcement last week that SQL Server can run on Linux. And it's coming next year.
2016-03-15
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Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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SQLPS and syspolicy_purge_history job
The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
Be Wary of Data
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;