A Personality Test
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve Jones is on vacation. Today Andy talks about personality tests and what they might tell you about yourself.
2012-03-22
394 reads
Editorials
Data Growth
Today Steve Jones talks about the pace of data growth looking to outpace the IT budget changes. As data professionals, we need to learn to do more with less.
2012-03-21
228 reads
Attracting Talent
How can a company attract talent? First, be a good company to work for, and then be real.
2012-03-20
207 reads
Disconnected database development: solving a problem that needn't exist
A disconnected model is only really needed in the absence of a properly-defined database interface. We, as developers, create a rod for our own backs by insisting on treating a database in a way we wouldn't treat an object, let alone an assembly or namespace.
2012-03-19
145 reads
Tabs or Spaces
Today Steve Jones talks about one of the classic software developer debates. When formatting code, how should you do it?
2012-03-19
453 reads
Waiting for SP1
This Friday Steve Jones wants to ask a poll about SQL Server 2012. Do you think it's ready for your production servers?
2012-03-16
172 reads
Was This Week A Good Week?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is on vacation. Was this a good week for you? How do you know? Do you have a definition that helps you determine if it was a good week? Today Andy Warren talks about how we view our jobs.
2012-03-15
141 reads
An Azure Outage
Recently the Azure service had an outage and Steve Jones has a few comments on this and why it might not be worse than your own company's IT group.
2012-03-14
169 reads
The Consistency Debate
Steve Jones wonders today if data professionals get a little too hung up on the consistency issues between servers.
2012-03-13
161 reads
SQL Server 2012 RTMs
This past week the big news in the SQL Server space was the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2012.
2012-03-12
390 reads
Blogs
Microsoft announces new cybersecurity AI multi-model
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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Symmetric Key Encryption
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