2019-02-20
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Editorials
How Perfect Should Our Software Be?
Steve talks about the level of engineering effort we need in software development.
2019-02-19
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We Want Maturity, But Is It Fun?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is away on vacation. This was originally published on Dec 23, 2014. I was reflecting recently on my first real IT job. It was a small-ish company when I joined it, perhaps a hundred employees or so, and still using a mishmash of software […]
2019-02-18 (first published: 2014-12-23)
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You Need Offline Backups
Steve talks about the need to be careful with backups in this age of malicious attackers.
2019-02-18
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2019-02-15
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2019-02-14
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Google's Expensive Confusing Rules
Google was recently fined for GDPR violations. Steve wonders if their confusing documentation and tools are the problem.
2019-02-13
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Hard Drive Reliability
Backblaze releases their new hard drive stats and there are some interesting items in the report.
2019-02-12
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A Capital Error
It's not the zero'th time Phil Factor has complained about the madness of a binary collation.
2019-02-11
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DR Prep Can Miss the Little Things
A minor disaster for Steve reveals some cracks in his pre-DR planning.
2019-02-11
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Blogs
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No More Deadlocks
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No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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