The Slow Week
This is usually a slow time for many companies between two holidays, but it doesn't need to be unproductive.
2017-12-27
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Editorials
Is the old stuff worth learning?
Often we are encouraged to learn the latest things, but sometimes the old stuff is worth knowing too.
2017-12-26
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2017-12-25
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VMs for Development
Many technical people use Virtual Machines to build their own lab or test environment. Today Steve Jones asks how you've built your setup.
2017-12-22 (first published: 2014-02-14)
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Data Security Policies
Does your organization have policies around data security? Perhaps they should, or perhaps you should ask for some to be created and education available for users.
2017-12-21 (first published: 2014-04-07)
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Getting Fired
When should a DBA get fired? Steve Jones thinks it should be rare and gives you two cases.
2017-12-20 (first published: 2014-03-27)
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2017-12-19 (first published: 2014-03-18)
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2017-12-18
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Understanding Your Value
Fill out the 2017 salary survey to help us all understand where our compensation might lie relative to others.
2017-12-18
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2017-12-15
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Praise
By Steve Jones
Don’t reserve your kindest praise for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while...
Prepping for Certification, Part 1 of ?
By Brian Kelley
I thought it would be good to put my thoughts down on how to...
How to Avoid Knowledge Stagnation
You want the short answer? Well, the only antidote to knowledge stagnation is probably...
Forums
is there a way to "detect" schema like changes on a server?
Hi, we have a few people who like to experiment on our prod sql...
Guidelines and Requirements
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Copying Production Schema
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Question of the Day
Copying Production Schema
If I use DBCC CLONEDATABASE, can I remove some of the information from the copy?
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