2019-05-24
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Editorials
Burning Out
Burning out in an IT job is easier to do than it should be. Steve has a little advice today.
2019-05-23
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2019-05-22 (first published: 2015-03-17)
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No State Based Deployments
Today Steve Jones talks about deploying your database changes, and how you can't ever really depend on a state based approach.
2019-05-21 (first published: 2015-03-02)
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What Limits Do You Want in 2019?
With SQL Server 2019 getting closer to release, Steve asks about the hardware limitations that we should have in Standard Edition.
2019-05-20
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Why Tools Can Help You Do Your Job
Back in my days as a SQL server DBA, I didn't have many third-party tools at my disposal. I remember having a monitoring tool with licenses for only three or four SQL server instances. Whenever there was a problem with one instance that wasn’t currently being monitored, I would have to stop monitoring another instance […]
2019-05-18
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The Other Jobs
This week Steve is asking what jobs you might choose if you had the chance, as well as those you enjoyed, or perhaps dreaded.
2019-05-17
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2019-05-16
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Microsoft and Minecraft and Training Kids
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren, looking at learning.
2019-05-15 (first published: 2015-02-23)
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Where Do You End Up as a DBA?
Steve Jones talks about careers, and where you might take your career over time.
2019-05-14 (first published: 2015-02-20)
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Blogs
SQL Server Containers Are Boring
Not really, but sort of. The beauty of containers, at least in a dev/test...
Public Role Permissions – Back to Basics
If you are being serious in your role, then the amount of times you...
It’s interesting how an OR short circuits.
I recently did a post on the case expression short circuting and received a...
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Always on AG and SQL Upgrade
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Migration from server to server
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