Independence Day 2011
A holiday in the US has most people away from work. Steve Jones leaves you a few thoughts and humor from his vacation.
2011-07-04
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Editorials
Sabbaticals
This editorial was originally published on Oct 25, 2005. Steve Jones talks about the idea of a sabbatical from work and the problems that might ensue if you haven't properly planned it.
2011-07-01
94 reads
A Little Interviewing Advice
This editorial was originally published on October 20, 2005. It is being reprinted as Steve is on vacation. I know there was a great uproar over the interview piece at the beginning of this week and I received lots of opinions on various parts of the article, good and bad to go over. But one […]
2011-06-30
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Changing the Oil In Your Server
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. We have regular maintenance that needs to be performed on our cars, and also regular maintenance that needs to be done on our servers. Andy points out that companies need to understand this and make sure these regular activities are performed.
2011-06-29
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Cost of the Cloud
The cloud should bring with it lower costs, and better efficiency, but that's not necessarily the way things are. Microsoft has a great internal project that costs out the cloud for their departments, and this would be a great addition to the public or private clouds.
2011-06-27
166 reads
Where Do You Go for Authoritative SQL Server Best Practices?
There is now a vast amount of SQL Server information and 'best practice' advice available on the Internet, in the form of innumerable blogs, community sites and forums. Finding an answer to your question is relatively easy, but finding the right, or best, answer is harder than ever.
2011-06-27
473 reads
Regular Audit Analysis
This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you handle audit data in your environment. Do you regularly analyze the data? Or do you wait for something to go wrong before you check the data.
2011-06-24
127 reads
The Age of Software
Does the age of software matter? Steve Jones talks about this after there was a decision for the SQL 11 tools not to support Windows XP.
2011-06-23
259 reads
Excel in the Clouds
Today Steve Jones talks about a new use for cloud computing with Excel to analyze large sets of data.
2011-06-21
159 reads
Archiving
It seems that archival isn't on the mind of most designers when they first build a database, which is OK, but DBAs ought to be building skills to implement this if the data size grows large.
2011-06-20
736 reads
Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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