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
170 reads
Editorials
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
162 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
393 reads
Old, but stable
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know about the older versions you are running in your production environments. Are you still using SQL Server 2000?
2012-03-09
189 reads
Scaling Out
Steve Jones likes Service Broker as a scale out technology, but it hasn't caught on. He thinks more people should take a look at this technology and implement it in places where it fits well.
2012-03-08
189 reads
Data Gravity
Does data have gravity? Will the law affect how applications are built and deployed? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2012-03-07
143 reads
Zettabyte
Today we have an editorial originally published on Mar 13, 2007 that is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. This one looks at all the world's data.
2012-03-06
199 reads
Code Scanning
Today Steve Jones talks about code scanning and the analysis that tools can do for us today.
2012-03-05
204 reads
Data Compression Double Take
A lot has been written about the potential performance benefits of SQL Server data compression; but hard performance data? Not so much.
2012-03-05
267,356 reads
High Availability Upgrades
Today Steve Jones has a poll about the new AlwaysOn feature in SQL Server 2012. Is it worth the upgrade for your company?
2012-03-02
271 reads
Blogs
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....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
Forums
BIT_COUNT() V
Comments posted to this topic are about the item BIT_COUNT() V
How We Reduced SQL Server Infrastructure Costs by 33% on AWS: Lessons From a Database Operations Manager
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How We Reduced SQL Server...
An Eventual Consistency Scam
Comments posted to this topic are about the item An Eventual Consistency Scam
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers