When To Hire a DBA
When should you hire a DBA? Always, of course! Actually Steve Jones doesn't have an answer, but he does talk about why a DBA can help you.
2011-04-28
308 reads
Editorials
Showing Its Age
Computer Systems are aging and as companies try to save money by extending their lifetimes, are we going to see more issues?
2011-04-27
176 reads
Less Pay, More Convenience
Steve Jones talks telecommuting today as a recent survey shows that a third of IT professionals would take less pay to work away from the office.
2011-04-26
216 reads
Cam-Graph
A new project from Microsoft Research has Steve Jones interested. It deals with large data sets to perform graphical modeling. The storage mechanism has Steve Jones interested.
2011-04-25
106 reads
Life is Short
Life is short, and Steve Jones reminds us to live for today, even as we invest in ourselves for the future.
2011-04-25
331 reads
Happy Easter 2011
It's Good Friday and the Easter holiday weekend with a number of countries having a bank holiday. Steve Jones is on vacation and providing us with a blooper reel for today.
2011-04-22
91 reads
Saying Thank You
After a bad experience traveling, Steve Jones stops to recognize that despite a possible computer bug, he still recognizes that the programmers building web sites aren't making mistakes on purpose and deserve a thank you for their work.
2011-04-21
175 reads
The Mentoring Experiment
Have you ever wanted a mentor? Do you think that your career would benefit from having one? Steve Jones talks about a new experiment that he is putting in place with Andy Warren that looks to build a mentoring framework.
2011-04-20
278 reads
Careful Blogging
This editorial was originally published on Sept 22, 2005. Steve Jones talks about the dangers of blogging about your job and with your company. Be sure that you are aware of what the impact of your posts will be on your image.
2011-04-19
146 reads
Analytics or Flying Cars
We live in a great age of data and Steve Jones thinks it's a great time to be a data professional, especially if you work on your data presentation skills.
2011-04-18
154 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Can You Let Go of Determinism
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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