The Five Year Plan
Is your IT department outdated? There's a prediction that they won't be around in five years. Steve Jones doesn't agree.
2016-12-12 (first published: 2013-06-13)
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Editorials
The One Metric to Rule Them All
Measuring the performance of systems isn't always just CPU, RAM, and Disk IO. Today Steve Jones looks at business based metrics.
2016-12-09
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Testing Coders
It seems that everyone has a different idea on how to interview people. Today Steve Jones looks at the technique of having someone improve some code in real time.
2016-12-08
104 reads
What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?
I have seen three common responses to database messes. My favorite is nuclear.
2016-12-06
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2016-12-05
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First Class Jobs
This week Steve Jones examines the idea of making jobs in SQL Server, first class citizens.
2016-12-02
105 reads
Learn to Earn
Learning more about your craft can translate into more earnings, but it won't be easy.
2016-12-01
110 reads
The Pressure to Compromise Ethics
There are always people that ask workers to deceive, defraud, or mislead customers. This is true for software developers as well.
2016-11-30
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Finally, Create or Alter
Today Steve Jones looks at the CREATE OR ALTER syntax, added in SQL Server 2016 SP1.
2016-11-29
166 reads
Hire the Right People
Today Steve Jones discusses the need to hire the people to do the tasks we need done, not the position we filled.
2016-11-28
130 reads
Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
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Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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