Outsourcing Jobs
This week Steve Jones looks at some of the jobs being outsourced and how that might affect data professionals.
2012-08-27
173 reads
Editorials
Ten Million Lines of Code
Intuit manages ten million lines of code in a single codebase and does a great job of it. Read a little about what they do.
2012-08-27
207 reads
Fix v. Create
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know how you spend your time. Do you get to do a lot of new development or do you end up fixing, tuning, and improving old code. Let us know.
2012-08-24
109 reads
Being Exceptional
It's time to vote for the Exceptional DBA awards, and Steve Jones is asking for your opinion. Take a moment and recognize one of your peers as the best DBA in 2012.
2012-08-23
146 reads
Make a Backup First
The hack on a Gizmodo writer using Amazon and Apple customer service security holes was shocking. Steve Jones notes that while security is important, backups are even more important.
2012-08-22
166 reads
Big Data Jobs
Big Data is in the news and there is a lot of job growth. Steve Jones lists a few industries and areas where you might find one.
2012-08-21
300 reads
Brad McGehee Moves On
The SQLServerCentral and Database Weekly editors recognize the contribution of Brad McGehee to the websites and newsletters, and to DBA education in general, over the past 5 years.
2012-08-20
153 reads
The Influence of the Cloud
This Friday Steve Jones is talking clouds. In the next year, will the cloud influence your job or will it be a fad for you?
2012-08-17
133 reads
Marketing Data is Exploding
The explosion of social media data has resulted in a lot more marketing data for companies. Some are using it well and some aren't, but in both cases, Steve Jones notes there are more opportunities for data professionals.
2012-08-16
145 reads
Learning C
As we use computers more and more, and more people must develop algorithms or simple programs, Steve Jones says everyone should learn C. Perhaps they should learn SQL as well.
2012-08-15
332 reads
Blogs
App-Consistent MongoDB Snapshots Across Multiple Pure Storage FlashArrays
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
A New Word: Dead Reckoning
By Steve Jones
dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would...
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Getting The Database Name
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Question of the Day
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