Hiring Guitarists
Hiring senior people is hard, but Steve Jones stumbled upon an idea that compares hiring technology people to hiring a senior level technology expert.
2017-08-14 (first published: 2013-07-11)
360 reads
Editorials
The art of getting it right
Phil Factor advocates paying attention when it doesn't matter to prepare for when it does.
2017-08-14
116 reads
What's in your CLR?
For today's Friday poll we have a guest editorial from Jeff Moden. The head of the anti-RBAR alliance has spent a lot of time trying to help others write better T-SQL and solve their problems with code that performs well. However this Friday Jeff asks about the CLR and how you are using it, or not using it, in the real world.
2017-08-11 (first published: 2009-12-11)
764 reads
Accelerating Your Career
There are any number of ways to help your career move forward. Steve Jones talks about one way you might not have thought about today.
2017-08-10 (first published: 2013-04-23)
455 reads
The Tethered Goat
Phil Factor's a 'tethered goat' database taught in the value of database intrusion detection and of "defense in depth".
2017-08-07
112 reads
The Second Best Job
Redgate is hiring someone to manage Simple Talk, a job just like the one Steve has with SQLServerCentral.
2017-08-03
99 reads
2017-08-02
76 reads
2017-08-01
115 reads
2017-07-31
72 reads
Managing Passwords
This week Troy Hunt provides updated password guidelines, but Steve Jones notes many of us are in the middle, both managing and dealing with passwords.
2017-07-31
113 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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