Dating Your Employer
Looking for a new job? Want to pick the best one? Your employer probably feels the same way. Andy Warren talks about how your interview is more like dating than you think.
2013-09-27
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Editorials
2013-09-26
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2013-09-25
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The Human Cost of Managing Data
There's a cost to managing data that isn't always considered: the human cost. Additional stress, work, and load can result in less than efficient management, even when you contain hard costs.
2013-09-24
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Citizen Scientists
The increasing power and shrinking size of computing devices means that more and more people can gather and analyze data. Steve Jones talks about some opportunities.
2013-09-23
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Can SQL Server do ‘Big’?
Can SQL Server scale? Phil Factor has a few thoughts on the capacities that SQL Server can scale to.
2013-09-20
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Opportunities Abound
We have so many ways in which we can grow our SQL Server careers. Steve Jones shares a few today.
2013-09-19
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Job Worries over Automation
Are you worried about your job in the future? Steve Jones thinks you shouldn't be.
2013-09-18
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Sensors and Data
In the future we'll have a more programmable world, but it will be driven more by data than software.
2013-09-17
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If we can do it, so can you
Microsoft is trying to prove that development works well in the cloud by moving their own internal development to the Azure cloud.
2013-09-16
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Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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