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
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Editorials
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
111 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
226 reads
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
78 reads
Complete Definitions
When we write scripts, we often assume many settings will be at some default value. When we generate scripts, that's not the case. Perhaps we should be sure that we always include the settings we expect.
2015-05-04
149 reads
Finding Problem Code
This week Steve Jones has a poll on performance tuning code. Since many people aren't experts, the answers this week might help them learn where to focus their efforts.
2015-05-01
247 reads
Is It Time to Upgrade?
Today Steve Jones looks at the reasons for upgrading, or not, from SQL Server 2005.
2015-04-30
225 reads
Email In The Bathroom: Not A Universal Good
Here are some fine, affordable products to completely destroy your work-life balance.
2015-04-27
192 reads
Your Role Is Changing
The DBA role is changing with the growth of DevOps as a way to better build software in an organization.
2015-04-23
249 reads
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...
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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