The TCO of the Cloud
When is the cloud right for your databases? Steve Jones talks about some metrics and ways you can measure your usage to determine when it makes sense.
2012-05-22
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Editorials
Continuous Releases
The idea of continuous development, integration and release can be a way to get your software in use by clients quicker. Steve Jones talks about releases, and some benefits you might get.
2012-05-21
157 reads
Password Handling
A system administrator can set a good example with the passwords they give to users or a bad example. Which one do you set?
2012-05-18
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Do Interviews Work?
Interviews are the way we primarily make hiring decisions but as Steve Jones notes, we don't really end up doing a very good job of picking good employees in many cases.
2012-05-17
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What is Big Data?
The definition of Big Data is rather murky, despite all the press and attention given to it. Steve Jones talks about what Big Data means for relational databases.
2012-05-16
736 reads
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
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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
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 Schema for Tables
What happens when I run this on SQL Server 2022 in the AdventureWorks2022 database?
SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION (OBJECT_ID(N'Person.Person')) AS [Object Definition]; GOSee possible answers