Evaluating a DBA (or AI)
Steve has a few thoughts on hiring and the way in which you might want to evaluate a DBA candidate.
2026-09-16 (first published: 2021-06-18)
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Editorials
An Azure Outage
Recently the Azure service had an outage and Steve Jones has a few comments on this and why it might not be worse than your own company's IT group.
2026-09-14 (first published: 2012-03-14)
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AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
Earlier this week, I recorded a talk called “AI: The Good, Bad, and the Future.” I talked about some of the good things that have happened with AI and some of the Bad. But what I really wanted to focus on was the future. I think many of us have heard the two letters AI […]
2026-09-12
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I Don't Want To Do XX
This Friday Steve is looking for those things you wish you didn't have to handle at work. Let us know what tasks you avoid and would rather hand off to others.
2026-09-11
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The Costs of Multiple Platforms
Lots of organizations use multiple database platforms. Steve notes there is a cost to choosing to allow this.
2026-09-09
164 reads
Does the Job Matter To You?
How important is your job to you? Today's guest editorial from Andy Warren asks the question of the professionals out there, some of whom do great work, but don't care about their jobs.
2026-09-07 (first published: 2010-05-20)
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Looking for New Blood
You may not be old, but I sure am. As I travel around to all the different conferences to speak, whether we're talking a dev conference, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL, one of the topics that keeps coming up is age. The age of the organizers. It's mostly the same people putting on events for the […]
2026-09-05
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The End of Summer
It's the first week of September, but Steve sees it as the end of summer. It's a time to catch up on things.
2026-09-04
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Measuring Productivity
Today Steve wonders if the data professionals out there measure themselves on the job.
2026-09-02
128 reads
Preserving Data
Today Steve has a few comments on backups and your ability to get to a restore in the event of an issue with your provider.
2026-08-31
285 reads
Blogs
Power BI Fun With Travels
By Steve Jones
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new...
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
Forums
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Question of the Day
PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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