Building a Data Center
A data center is a complex beast. Is it worth building and maintaining your own? Steve has a few thoughts on a data center versus a cloud.
2025-02-05
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Hardware
The Rise of Data Centers
There is still a huge demand for data centers, both from cloud vendors and private enterprises.
2025-01-06
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The Invisible Disk
Steve sees disk drives as shrinking to the point of being invisible to most of us.
2024-09-09
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2024-06-17
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Portable Data Storage
Today Steve wonders if the technology for storage and data transfers has superseded the need for portable drives.
2024-01-15
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Building a PC
Steve has a few thoughts on building your own PC to help you with work or your career.
2022-06-10
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2021-04-28
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Will You Touch a Server Again?
Steve doesn't think he will ever work on server class machine again in terms of hardware. He wonders how many of you feel the same.
2021-02-17
130 reads
The Database Server Upgrade for Let's Encrypt
Let's Encrypt upgrades their database servers and publishes the details.
2021-02-01
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Data Analysis Without a Server
The ability to analyze lots of data on a workstation can be a way to test things without overloading server systems until you are sure your code works.
2020-08-25
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Blogs
Azure Networking: Designing for Change
By John
Failing to plan is planning to fail. When organizations first begin implementing Azure networking,...
Using Customer Docker Compose File Names
By Steve Jones
As I use containers more and more to run various things, I decided I...
SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances
By Kevin3NF
Old Reliable Still Matters If you’ve been around SQL Server for a while, you’ve...
Forums
SQL Server authentication vs. Trusted connection
I maintain an application written years ago, where the database is on a Windows...
Handling Engagement Rings & Wedding Band
I’m working on a jewelry e-commerce project and need advice on designing an efficient...
The Duplicate Cursor
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The Duplicate Cursor
Can I run this code:
DECLARE ANewTable CURSOR FOR SELECT * FROM ANewTableSee possible answers