Self Service SQL
Self service in IT is something Steve Jones likes, but it doesn't solve all problems, and might end up creating more issues.
2012-05-15
233 reads
Editorials
Is Software Engineering Dead?
Software engineering is seen as a dead end career choice, at least by some people. Steve Jones disagrees.
2012-05-14
431 reads
Time for Your Career
This week Steve Jones wants to know if you can find time for your professional development. Regularly improving your skills is an important part of your career in technology, and the poll this weeks asks what time you can make for improvement.
2012-05-11
214 reads
Teambuilding and Bonding
Steve Jones attended a day out from the Red Gate offices recently and he talks about the value of those experiences.
2012-05-10
162 reads
SQL Server on RDS
Amazon now offers SQL Server 2008 R2 in their RDS service. It's an easy way to get working with SQL Server with a minimal investment.
2012-05-09
288 reads
The Colocated Dangers
An outage at SQLServerCentral reminded Steve Jones that it's not "if" a disaster will occur, but "when" it will occur that should have you preparing for a disaster at some point in the future.
2012-05-08
112 reads
Mobile Password Protection
Security is becoming more of an issue for mobile devices as we store and access more information on them all the time.
2012-05-07
93 reads
Responsibility for Security
Steve Jones talks about security, and the developer's role in ensuring secure code.
2012-05-07
337 reads
The Best Way to Learn
This Friday Steve Jones is looking to see how you might like to improve your educational materials. With the success of our Stairway Series, we are looking to find better ways to teach people about SQL Server.
2012-05-04
317 reads
Learn XML
Steve Jones talks about XML and how it will be more and more important for DBAs to understand this in the future.
2012-05-03
716 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Training Employees
By Steve Jones
Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well...
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
SQL Server Migration Overview
By Kevin3NF
It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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hops from sql server to mysql to s4 hana - possible?
Hi when i think of server hops , i think of how kerberos assists...
Can/Can't Do/Don't
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Question of the Day
Strange String Splits
When I run this code, how many rows are returned?
DECLARE @meals NVARCHAR(1000) = N'夕食昼食朝食' DECLARE @s NVARCHAR(1) = N'食' SELECT value FROM STRING_SPLIT(@meals, @s) GOSee possible answers