Naming Confusion
The naming of systems and other technological constructs is always a debate within groups. Steve Jones points out a few places where this might actually prevent mistakes.
2015-05-21
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Editorials
Controlling Alerts
Being on call is not much fun for anyone, but it can certainly be hard on those that receive lots of calls for systemic issues. Are there better ways to manage this?
2015-05-20
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Awareness
This week Steve Jones looks back at the T-SQL Tuesday blog part and its theme of monitoing.
2015-05-18
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Searching for Plans
Would you want a query optimizer that searches for the best plan for your code? Steve Jones thinks this might not be a bad idea.
2015-05-15 (first published: 2010-09-13)
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2015-05-13
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Opening Up Data
Tim O'Reilly, head of O'Reilly publishing, has been an advocate of better date movement in the world. Steve Jones has a few comments on an interview he gave earlier this year.
2015-05-12
100 reads
Not Only a Meeting of Minds, but of Open Minds.
In which Phil Factor claims that professional application development requires a broad knowledge base.
2015-05-11
102 reads
The Service Pack Fiasco
The recent SQL Server 2014 Service Pack fiasco wasn't the first, but hopefully it won't be the last.
2015-05-11
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vNext 2016
Steve Jones looks at the next version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2016. Until this week, it was known as vNext.
2015-05-07
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2015-05-04
70 reads
Blogs
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
Forums
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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