Too Much Data
Are you managing too much data? Lots of data professionals feel that way, but fortunately "Big Data" is in the news and bringing more visibility to the challenges we face on a daily basis.
2012-11-13
186 reads
Editorials
Monitoring is Essential
One of the keys to better availability, scalability, and performance on your systems is understanding what is happening in the instances. That requires monitoring, which Steve Jones sees as essential.
2012-11-12
286 reads
The Data We Give Away
We're all used to storing and protecting data, but how often to we consider the data we're generating every day?
2012-11-12
75 reads
What Do You Want from SQL in the City?
After the SQL in the City tour wrapped up this week in Seattle, Steve Jones looks back and asks a question. What type of training would be best for you.
2012-11-09
144 reads
More Than One Way to Skin a Cat
There are many ways to accomplish a task in SQL Server, and almost every technology. But too much choice might not be the best thing for beginners.
2012-11-08
213 reads
Savvy Managers
Data quality is everyone's business and it takes some work. Steve Jones talks about some hints for you and your manager to make things better in your data systems.
2012-11-07 (first published: 2007-11-27)
172 reads
Unprotected Queries
There are over half a million database servers out on the Internet without protection. How can this happen?
2012-11-06 (first published: 2007-12-04)
489 reads
Working Your 40
Will the 40 hour work week change anytime soon? A survey seems to think so, and Steve Jones (somewhat) agrees.
2012-11-05 (first published: 2007-12-03)
327 reads
A Welcome Delay
An open letter to Microsoft from the CEO of Mandriva Linux might not have been the best idea.
2012-11-02 (first published: 2007-11-30)
379 reads
2012-11-01
118 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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