2020-06-03
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Editorials
2020-06-02
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Sabotage at Work
Some of the work habits that might sabotage an organization appear to have been adopted by some of Steve's former employers.
2020-06-01
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2020-05-30
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Crack that Encrypted Data
Ransomware is becoming an issue. Steve Jones notes DBAs need to be ready to deal with these issues.
2020-05-29 (first published: 2016-04-19)
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The Challenges of Working Under Quarantine
It's been nearly two months since the Redgate Software offices closed. I am not normally in the office, but I did cancel a trip that I normally would have taken to touch base with a number of teams. That's a minor change for me, but a still a change. It's much less than the disruption that […]
2020-05-28
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Jumping Air Gaps
There are all sorts of viruses, worms, and malware out in the world, and some of us have had to deal with them at different points in our career. SQL Slammer was particularly memorable for me, but there were plenty of non data related virus issues I've had to work on at various employers. To […]
2020-05-27
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Enriching Your Life
As I was looking to build career goals for the new year, I think mostly about technical topics. That makes sense, given my focus and job, but I ran across an interesting thread on Hacker News that asked about skills to work on in 2020, and not necessarily technical ones. I did find it interesting […]
2020-05-26
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Building Better Software for Everyone
Building better software might be a bit more work when we consider ensuring everyone can use our work.
2020-05-25
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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
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Blogs
Creating a New Sequence–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote about sequences in an editorial recently and decided to start using them....
An All Star Lineup for EightKB
By Steve Jones
An online conference is coming on June 17, 2020 that is full of high...
How should I store currency values in SQL Server?
On Twitter, Michael Dyrynda writes: ?? Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever...
Forums
Filestream or Filetable or None...what to be used?
I've been assigned with a project that includes converting the columns in the existing...
How to force MS SQL to select a partition instead of making a full table scan
Hi all, I am currently designing a datamart layer in MS SQL 2016 Enterprise....
Daily 3 Coping
Today’s tip is find three good reasons to be hopeful for the future. http://voiceofthedba.com/2020/06/03/daily-coping-3-jun-2020/
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