It seems that often we promote the best technical people into managerial positions, but is that a good idea? Steve Jones notes that a few people think this is a bad idea and there ought to be a technical career path for IT workers.
2016-05-05 (first published: 2012-05-01)
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When a business does not have an agreed set of definitions for their every day terms slow burning chaos ensues.
2016-05-04
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Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is away. Andy tries to define what a DBA really does in a way that might make sense to others.
2016-05-03
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SQL Server 2016 is the first cloud first version of SQL Server being released as the on-premise product.
2016-04-27
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2016-04-26
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Phil Factor recounts the most important lesson of his early IT career: try not to burst into giggles when you get to look at the client's IT system.
2016-04-25
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2016-04-25
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2016-04-22
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2016-04-21
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2016-04-18
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By gbargsley
We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
By Chris Yates
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
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