2015-12-01
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Editorial
Giving Thanks
Phil Factor is gratified to see just how much many developers and DBAs give back to their technical communities as well as society in general.
2015-11-30
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NoSQL Complaints
One NoSQL database is not necessarily like another. Steve Jones notes that some of the complaints out there will likely be easily overcome.
2015-11-30
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2015-11-27
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Just Say No
Steve Jones reminds us that we must manage our time, and learn to do so despite the demands placed on us.
2015-11-25
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The Biggest Data Breach (For Now)
JP Morgan suffers the largest data breach for a financial institution, but Steve Jones doesn't think this record will stand for long.
2015-11-24
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2019-08-02 (first published: 2015-11-23)
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2015-11-23
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Early Adopters
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at those that run software early in its lifecycle.
2015-11-20
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Shrinking the Budget
Most DBAs don't get involved with budgets at work, but we are affected by them. Steve notes you might want to understand how budgets work.
2015-11-19
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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
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Forums
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SQLPS and syspolicy_purge_history job
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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;