Software Teams
Building a team when you are developing software of any size is important and Steve Jones shares one of the most important things you need.
2012-10-31 (first published: 2007-12-10)
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Editorials
Keeping Your Job
A few thoughts from Steve Jones on how you can help increase your own job security in IT.
2012-10-30 (first published: 2007-11-26)
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2012-10-29 (first published: 2007-11-20)
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Two Steps Ahead
Today Steve Jones talks about those great DBAs, the Exceptional ones that do more than just respond to issues or set up monitoring on their systems.
2012-10-25
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A SQL Server Log Reader
There's a hole in the SQL Server platform. No log reader comes with the product and Steve Jones thinks Microsoft should build one and include it.
2012-10-24
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Walk on the Wild Side
Today Steve Jones talks about the differences between development and production and how it can be good to spend a little doing the other type of work.
2012-10-23
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2012-10-22
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Unprofessional Employers
This Friday Steve Jones talks about training and employers, and who has the responsibility for your knowledge? Let us know if you think your employer shares the burden with you.
2012-10-19
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Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V
Steve Jones talks about the improvements in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. These days there isn't a good reason to avoid considering virtualization for SQL Servers.
2012-10-18
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Manage By Delegation
There always seem to be more and more instances to manage, but not more and more staff. Steve Jones talks about the key to good management being delegation of the work.
2012-10-17
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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....
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