Steve Jones thinks Microsoft is making a fundamental security mistake in the way they build features for the various editions of SQL Server. Read today's editorial and see if you agree.
2014-11-03 (first published: 2009-12-21)
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Determining the best performance value you can get for your effort is not as straightforward as you might think.
2014-11-03
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This Friday Steve Jones has another fun poll. A question on the geek costume that might excite you the most.
2014-10-31
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What do people do when their job doesn't require a lot of technical skills? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2014-10-29
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Salaries for data professionals have risen quite a bit, according to the latest salary survey. That's good for those of us working with SQL Server.
2014-10-28
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Managers, look away now. Patrick Index wants to get something off his chest...
2014-10-27
318 reads
Over the years the page size in SQL Server has changed, growing larger to fit larger data sets. However not all functions have been modified to work with larger page sizes. Or even exceed them. Steve Jones wonders if it's time to increase the page size.
2014-10-23 (first published: 2010-02-11)
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Most people prefer to work with the platforms that they are familiar with, but there is always pressure to try new, exciting technologies when others have success. Steve Jones explores the idea of switching platforms.
2014-10-20
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What's the most important thing about your application? The code? The accuracy of its calculations? The layout of the reports? Steve Jones has another opinion.
2014-10-17 (first published: 2009-12-09)
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Who checks on those who manage our systems? Is there auditing in place for those accidental DBAs?
2014-10-16 (first published: 2009-12-03)
314 reads
By Brian Kelley
This was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite and it's been covered by others...
By Rayis Imayev
"Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t...
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
Hi, I was using order by on a column with characters and saw something...
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I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
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