Being Responsible for Code
How responsible should developers be for their code? Facebook has an interesting way of looking at their engineers' performance.
2012-04-30
264 reads
Editorials
When Will You Upgrade to SQL Server 2012?
Having noticed a very low rate of migration to the latest version of SQL Server, Brad McGehee asks - when will you upgrade to 2012?
2012-04-30
722 reads
Security Outside the Database
Database security needs to improve, and while SQL Server continues to get better, there is more work to do. However there are plenty of security issues outside the database that also need to be addressed.
2012-04-26
174 reads
Technology for Sharing
Technology has been great for helping us work more efficiently by better sharing resources. Steve Jones sees this as both good and bad in different ways as well as a way of providing new opportunities.
2012-04-25
67 reads
Smelly Power
Power is a limited resource, but one that's required for computing. Microsoft has a new idea for generating power data centers that Steve Jones likes.
2012-04-24
155 reads
Buggy Forever
This week Steve Jones talks about forever day bugs, those bugs in industrial systems that haven't been patched, and are not likely to be ever fixed.
2012-04-23
107 reads
Social Media and Interviews
The requirement to disclose social media credentials to some employers has Steve Jones worried.
2012-04-23
150 reads
Small Management
This editorial was originally published on June 21, 2007. It is being republished as Steve is traveling. Today we take a poll on administration and management from devices smaller than a laptop.
2012-04-20
85 reads
Social Data Analysis
Today we have an editorial originally published on June 24, 2007. It is being republished as Steve is traveling. IBM has done some work to help people analyze sets of data with new visualizations.
2012-04-18
105 reads
The Best of the Best
Today's editorial was originally pubished on June 26, 2007. It is being re-run today as Steve is traveling. What were the best places to work in 2007? Steve Jones links to a list and talks about the value of using those lists.
2012-04-17
180 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?
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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