What's Your Backup Speed?
This week Steve Jones has a bit of a competition. Share with him how fast you can back up a 1TB database.
2016-11-04
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Editorials
Generating Our Own Bad Data
We depend on data quality to run our businesses efficiently. However, it's a problem when we mess that data up on purpose.
2016-11-02
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2016-10-31
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Analysis Services Lives On
The release of Analysis Services in Azure means the platform has a future.
2016-10-31
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Emotions and Decision Making
Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey that looks at emotions and how they can affect our decision making.
2016-10-28
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Wasting Time
Things at work that waste your time are impediments to actually getting work done. Management ought to be in the business of removing as many of these things as possible.
2016-10-27 (first published: 2012-10-11)
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Who is that masked man anyway?
If you are holding, in your organisation, personal data about real people or commerce, it is wrong, and in many cases illegal to do database development work or testing using your production data. This, of course, probably applies to a minority of database systems, but data breaches caused by attacking backups or copies of production […]
2016-10-24
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Where Do You Run Your R Scripts?
Executing R scripts can be a heavy load. Today Steve Jones wonders if SQL Server is the best place to execute these.
2016-10-20
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One Million
The number one million has special meaning to many people. And it's a heck of a metric to achieve in a measurement on a database system.
2016-10-19
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2016-10-18
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Blogs
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Steve Jones
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
How to Measure AI Value: A 6-Branch AI Maturity Model for Use Cases and Agents
Your AI is busy. But do you know what it's worth? Most companies can...
Forums
Inventory Snapshot for missing Period
Hello, We maintain an inventory table that captures monthly snapshots of item inventory levels....
Azure SQL Hyperscale Unveiled
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What is the worst part about existing monitoring solutions?
Hi. What is the most difficult aspect of using monitoring software like idera, redgate,...
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