Choosing a Career
Learning about new jobs is a good way to help decide if you want to change careers.
2018-11-26
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Editorials
Moving to Query Store
Steve is looking for people to use the Query Data Store and share their stories, good or bad.
2018-11-26
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A T-SQL Code Testing Guide
Testing our database code is a fairly immature process for many of this, but perhaps we could build a guide that helps everyone learn to write better and more comprehensive tests.
2018-11-23 (first published: 2014-10-07)
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2018-11-22
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Another Reason to Care About Security
Just before the US holiday, Steve wants you to think about the security of our systems.
2018-11-21
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2018-11-20
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2018-11-19
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PASS Summit 2018 Recap
This year, PASS celebrated the 20th PASS Summit. As it has been many times, this year’s Summit was held in Seattle. PASS Summit has visited other locations such as Orlando and Charlotte, but, at least to me, it feels like home when it’s hosted in Seattle. For those of us who have participated for many […]
2018-11-19
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2018-11-16
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2018-11-15
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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