Are We Not Testing Enough?
This Friday Steve Jones asks if we are setting the bar high enough when interviewing people and would you want to test more?
2010-07-02
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This Friday Steve Jones asks if we are setting the bar high enough when interviewing people and would you want to test more?
2010-07-02
204 reads
Steve Jones talks about the loss of data, and how it can impact your life. And why you want to be sure that your restores are ready in the event of a disaster.
2010-07-01
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A guest editorial from Josef Richberg, winner of the Exceptional DBA contests in 2009.
2010-06-30
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A simple motivational plan goes sideways in this guest editorial from Andy Warren.
2010-06-29
186 reads
Steve Jones takes a day to thank everyone that donates their time to help others in the community.
2010-06-28
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Phil discusses the pros and cons of the traditional versus stack overflow-style model for forum debate, and wonders whether there is a database model that would support all these different forms of discussion, or cooperative work, so that we can simply fit the 'visualization' to the nature of the particular discussion.
2010-06-28
88 reads
This week Steve Jones has a poll about the difficulties in getting the DBA position into companies. What's your current opinion of this profession?
2010-06-25
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Do you work on a database system that's a dinosaur? A recent article called out RDBMSse as dinosaurs, but Steve Jones doesn't think that's correct.
2010-06-24
401 reads
There was quite a bit of debate over the use of schemas recently on the Internet. Steve Jones talks about some of the reasons why you might want a schema, and a few reasons why you might not.
2010-06-22
627 reads
Steve Jones comments on a few things that can help you, and are worth keeping in mind as you interact with people.
2010-06-21
243 reads
By DataOnWheels
Over the past couple of months, I have started losing my ability to talk...
By Steve Jones
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I have a job running each night starting at 4:30AM and usually finishing at...
hi guys, I have a partitioned table AM_ITM_INSTNC_MSS and I want to get...
This is one I haven't seen before. I'm trying to drop a database user...
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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