Outsourced = Laid Off?
This editorial was originally published on May 3, 2006. Steve is traveling in the UK this week and we are reprinting older pieces. This one looks at offshoring.
2011-07-15
206 reads
Editorials
DRI or No DRI?
This editorial was originally published on Feb 19, 2006. We are reprinting pieces this week as Steve is traveling in the UK.
2011-07-14
143 reads
Here's a Reason to Document
This editorial was originally published on Feb 17, 2006. Steve is traveling in the UK this week and we are re-printing some old pieces. This one talks about a search engine for code.
2011-07-13
119 reads
Bad Eyes
This editorial was originally published on Jan 9, 2006. Steve is traveling to the UK this week and we are reprinting a few older editorials. This editorial talks about the health of your eyes, a topic of concern for those of us that work with computers regularly.
2011-07-12
140 reads
Halfway Through 2011
Steve Jones stops halfway through the year to look over the things that he ought to be doing to better manage systems as a DBA and reminds you to do the same.
2011-07-11
83 reads
Lesson #6: What CIOs really care about
This editorial was originally published on Dec 30, 2005. Steve is traveling to the UK this week and we are reprinting editorials.
2011-07-11
135 reads
Self-aware Instances
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones talks about a fundamental architectural decision for your software. Do you want central control or a series of distributed processes, each one self-aware, and able to act on its own.
2011-07-08
92 reads
Measurements
"If you cannot measure something, you cannot improve it." - Lord Kelvin. That quote and a blog about it inspired today's editorial.
2011-07-07
168 reads
We Need a DBA Boot Camp
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. We often find that many DBAs fall into the job as accidental DBAs, and need more training. Is a boot camp the way to get them up to speed quickly?
2011-07-06
249 reads
How Much Is It Worth?
This editorial was originally published on Nov 21, 2005. It is being re-run today as Steve is on holiday. How much money is it worth to compromise your ethics? Steve Jones asks today as many companies around the world seem to be doing that.
2011-07-05
134 reads
Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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