Have you ever given up on your brainchild
Have you ever given up on your brainchild? If yes, how did you deal with it?
2017-04-24
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Editorials
It's all about Customer Service
Grant Fritchey on the lessons all DBAs can learn from the recent Public Relations disaster for United Airlines.
2017-04-24
87 reads
How do you come up with creative ideas?
It takes a creative mind to come up with new ideas. So how do you do it?
2017-04-21
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2017-04-20
372 reads
SQL Server Telemetry
SQL Server captures information about usage and send it to Microsoft. Is that a problem? Not for Steve Jones.
2017-04-18
868 reads
Liable for Data Loss
Today Steve Jones looks at some data loss lawsuits against Microsoft, but asks the general question of whether software vendors need to be more liable (and careful).
2017-04-17
74 reads
More Power in Your BI
This week Steve looks at all the information and learning available for Power BI.
2017-04-17
125 reads
The Cost of Database Downtime
Do you know what the cost is for your database going down? Maybe more interesting, is do you want to know?
2017-04-14
149 reads
AI Helpers or Replacements
The future will see more of our data used in machine learning and other AI-like systems. Is that something we want?
2017-04-13
61 reads
The Value of Your Personal Data
Today Steve Jones discusses the idea of data value, and what it might mean to you, personally.
2017-04-12
56 reads
Blogs
Automatic Index Compaction
By ReviewMyDB
Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
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.” –...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I specify only the Resource Database?
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