The HR Scorecard
If you are looking to gain some BI experience or tackle a project that might help your company, Steve Jones suggests you consider doing something for HR.
2011-10-25
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Editorials
Don’t Economize on Processors for Database Servers
In this guest editorial, Glenn Berry argues that, when designing your servers, you need to budget for processing power as your primary concern.
2011-10-24
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The Cost of Architecture
What's the cost of those architectural decisions that you make? It can be substantial if they aren't good ones, but is that a problem? Steve Jones talks a little about the implications
2011-10-24
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Which Versions of SQL Server Do You Have?
This week Steve Jones asks about the versions of SQL Server that you have to support in your daily job. Answer this week's poll and let us know the width and breadth of support that you are responsible for maintaining.
2011-10-21
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Not Only SQL
Steve Jones talks NoSQL today, which should stand for Not Only SQL, according to Dr David DeWitt. The final keynote last week discussed SQL alternatives and their impact on our data world.
2011-10-20
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Protecting Data
How hard is it to anonymize data? According to some research, it might be close to impossible. The problem is that we are gathering so much data that cross referencing data sets becomes a problem. Steve Jones talks today about the implications of this for security.
2011-10-19
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Give us all the features
The mix of hardware and feature limits in SQL Server varies by edition. Steve Jones thinks it should be simplified to only matter for hardware and scale, not features.
2011-10-18
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2011-10-17
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Does It Help
This editorial was originally published on Oct 12, 2006, published today as Steve is out today at the PASS Summit. Today Steve talks about the productivity that comes from having multiple monitors.
2011-10-14
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The Contest That's Out of the World
Steve Jones talks about the most interesting contest, evah! Brought to you by Red Gate Software.
2011-10-13
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Blogs
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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