This guest editorial from Michael Coles was originally published on Aug 1, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. Today Michael talks about the potential for reward for taking risk.
2012-06-19 (first published: 2007-08-01)
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Today's editorial was originally published on Aug 7, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday. Is it worth getting certificated? Steve raises the question today.
2012-06-18 (first published: 2007-08-07)
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Is there an agenda in Redmond that looks to the cloud first for new versions of the platforms? Steve Jones thinks if there is, it might be a good thing.
2012-06-18
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Dave Winer has been programming for a long time, and he plans on continuing for some time to come. Steve Jones talks about the important things Dave realizes and how we should also be considering them.
2012-06-14
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With all the recent worms and attacks out there, it's only a matter of time before someone focuses more on databases. With that in mind, Steve Jones thinks it's important we learn and use encryption and better security now.
2012-06-13
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Is it worth writing your own software? Steve Jones says you ought to really think about it and perhaps spend time looking to buy something before you build a new application.
2012-06-12
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This editorial that was originally published on Aug 15, 2007. It is being rerun as Steve is traveling. This editorial looks at the issues that happen in production and how you should perhaps plan for disasters.
2012-06-11 (first published: 2007-08-15)
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Database people are used to changing the hardware of the server on which a problem database resides, or making changes to indexes and database settings, but humans and their organisations are far more difficult to tune and optimise than databases.
2012-06-11
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Today we have an editorial from Aug 8, 2007 that is being republished as Steve is on holiday. This piece looks at interns and how it's a good idea for finding new employees.
2012-06-08 (first published: 2007-08-08)
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It can be very hard to find time to learn new skills and get better at your job. Today Steve Jones talks about finding a little time in the margins of your life.
2012-06-07
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Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
By Steve Jones
dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would...
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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