2016-03-14
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Editorial
2016-03-11
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Building Better Software
Steve Jones discusses the idea of building software better, and why that's a challenge for many of us.
2016-03-10
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The Slack Integration
Slack has become a popular phenomenon in the technical world, especially for software developers. Should we join in?
2016-03-09
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The Data Driven Event
In a couple of days, Microsoft is holding Data Driven, an event that will highlight SQL Server 2016.
2016-03-08
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2016-03-07
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Testing times with SMO
SMO gives every appearance of being a great example of over-reliance on automated testing at the expense of manual exploratory testing.
2016-03-07
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Spousal Surcharges
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that examines the costs of family at work.
2016-03-04
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Open is Not Necessarily More Secure
Just because we can view the source code for software doesn't mean it is more secure.
2016-03-03
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Learning from Microsoft
Microsoft has changed their engineering to do amazing things in the cloud, especially with SQL Server. We could all learn from this.
2016-03-01
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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;