What's Your Title?
A career based poll this Friday has Steve Jones asking what your title is, or maybe what you think it should be given the work that you do.
2011-11-18
176 reads
Editorials
More SQL Injection
Why are sites still being hit by SQL Injection on a large scale? Steve Jones talks about a recent large scale attack that affected over a million sites.
2011-11-17
597 reads
Do You Want to be a DBA in Space?
With the DBA in Space contest ending this week, Steve Jones has some thoughts on the contest, and what he'd do if he were to win.
2011-11-16
81 reads
Network Databases? Is it time to change?
Today Steve responds to a blog post from Microsoft that talks about the viability of placing our database files on network shares.
2011-11-15
162 reads
Don't Criticize Code
For anyone eager for a long-term career in IT Development, humility and tact are probably more important habits to acquire than demon coding-skills. Phil Factor explains why.
2011-11-14
319 reads
The Industry Problem
We have less people studying technical subjects and an apparent shortage of technical talent in the IT field. Steve Jones thinks we might have an industry wide problem.
2011-11-14
235 reads
First Impressions
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that examines the first impressions that you create when you meet someone.
2011-11-11
129 reads
License By Core
Microsoft recently announced changes in the licensing for SQL Server 2012 and Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the topic.
2011-11-09
298 reads
Real Time Dangers
Steve Jones notes that our expert systems might not handle every situation well, and the quest to move towards more real time decision making can involve dangers if a human is not in the loop.
2011-11-08
147 reads
Going Green in Software Development
Today Steve Jones talks about the impact of better software programming on the energy use in your company's data center.
2011-11-07
107 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Is Fabric a Reliable Service...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers