2020-07-06
122 reads
Microsoft
The Build Book of News
Every year Microsoft has held the Build conference for developers. I've been lucky enough to go a few times, and I was hoping to get the chance to attend again. With the pandemic, the entire event went virtual, and was held across 48 continuous hours. I was slightly disappointed as a few sessions I wanted […]
2020-05-23
78 reads
Is 100% Security Possible?
A security breach at Microsoft is disconcerting, especially when they don't share details.
2020-03-05
269 reads
Azure Sphere
The Azure Sphere project is a great piece of research at Microsoft that might help us data professionals with security.
2019-11-25
188 reads
2019-11-11
307 reads
A Mindset Shift
Microsoft has grown and changed their culture in the last few years, which greatly impresses Steve.
2019-11-01
297 reads
Evergreen SQL Server
Microsoft talks about evergreen SQL, where you never need to patch your database.
2019-07-24
927 reads
DevOps and OSS Can Scale
Microsoft has embraced open source software, and has opened much of their code. They have also proven that DevOps development can scale in this environment.
2019-07-17
146 reads
More Linux than Windows
Microsoft announced that Linux runs on more machines in Azure than Windows. Steve isn't surprised and thinks that Linux use will continue to grow.
2019-07-06
170 reads
2019-06-26
153 reads
Blogs
Daily Coping 28 Jun 2022
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
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Alert Filtering in SQL Monitor
By Steve Jones
SQL Monitor has improved a lot over the last couple of years. We have...
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