The Build Buy Debate
Does it make more sense for a company to build it's own software or buy a package?
2012-10-04 (first published: 2007-10-23)
211 reads
Editorials
Dog Food
Should you dog food your own software? Steve Jones thinks this is a good idea if it works for your particular product.
2012-10-03 (first published: 2007-09-28)
637 reads
Remote DBAs
There's still hope for all you DBAs out there looking for a telecommuting job that allows you to work in your pajamas. Someone sent me this case study about remote DBAs and I decided to pass it along. It's a one page PDF, and it's a fluff piece to some extent for Bluewolf, a company that has outsourced IT staffing, but has a section on remote DBA work as well
2012-10-02 (first published: 2007-09-19)
1,364 reads
Challenge Yourself
Challenge yourself to find new tools and use them in your work. That's today's message from Steve Jones. (This editorial was originally published on Aug 5, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is away on the SQL in the City US 2012 tour.)
2012-10-01
299 reads
Fragmentation Fear
Index fragmentation can certainly cause performance problems, but should it really dictate the way we design our clustered indexes?
2012-10-01
388 reads
Outsourcing Security
Companies may look to outsource security in order to take advantage of experts' skills at a lower price. What will that mean for data professionals?
2012-09-27
109 reads
Pair Programming
Today Steve Jones talks about pair programming and when it might make sense for data professionals.
2012-09-26
181 reads
Trade-offs
When working on a project, you have to make trade-offs. Unfortunately, some managers don't realize this. Steve Jones says we need to help them understand that doing things the right way, and working with trade-offs, makes for better systems.
2012-09-25
131 reads
IT is Looking Good
The forecast for IT work is growing. That's good for those of us working in the field.
2012-09-24
163 reads
Rewrite the Coding Rules
If we rewrite the coding rules, will software be more secure? Steve Jones thinks it might and that we should be constantly looking to change the techniques, patterns, and skills we have.
2012-09-24
206 reads
Blogs
App-Consistent MongoDB Snapshots Across Multiple Pure Storage FlashArrays
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PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
By Brian Kelley
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A New Word: Dead Reckoning
By Steve Jones
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Getting The Database Name
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Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers