SQL Server has grown and expanded to provide administrators and developers with a great deal of information on how it processes queries. However Steve Jones asks if you want more information and options for tuning.
2013-03-22
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The growth of data, and the sheer scale of data we store and manage is stunning. Steve Jones looks at the rates of growth these days.
2013-03-21
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On this quiet Friday, Steve Jones skips a poll and talks about life. This editorial was originally published on Jun 6, 2008. It is being republished as Steve is on vacation.
2013-03-20 (first published: 2008-06-06)
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Steve Jones talks about the serious storage that EMC is bringing to the Vatican library.
2013-03-19
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Today Steve Jones talks about backups. Setting up a process is good, but you cannot count on it working forever. You need to check periodically to be sure it's working, and that your skills are not deteriorating.
2013-03-18
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This Friday Steve Jones notes that changing and altering your opinions is good and invites you to share things you might have learned that changed your mind in the past.
2013-03-15
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If you are the type of person that doesn't run DBCC checks, Steve Jones thinks you're a gambler. And you might think about attending SQL Intersection next month in Vegas.
2013-03-14
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Steve Jones asks the question why so much data in SQL Server is cleared when we restart an instance.
2013-03-13
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Today Steve Jones gives his vision of the database in the future. He hopes that databases contain more information about not only their objects, but their needs, like backups and maintenance.
2013-03-12
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Despite recent 'outages', The canny CIO will make use of the obvious advantages of public cloud services where it risks neither security or availability. Adoption of the Cloud services and platforms is going to be most effective where the Cloud’s advantages of rapid scalability can be harnessed.
2013-03-11
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I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
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