Today we have a guest editorial from Chris O’Connor as Steve is on vacation. Today Chris talks about the responsibilities of application developers in safeguarding the data when there is no DBA.
2011-06-02
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Security is a big concern with data, especially when there is another company involved. Steve Jones notes today that cloud vendors need to beef up their work in this area.
2011-06-01
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Almost every DBA will be asked to change data in production at some point. Too often we don't have the tools to allow users to correct errors, but when you make changes, Steve Jones reminds you that you need to be careful and still have a process.
2011-05-31
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2011-05-30
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Today Steve Jones asks how you handle those passwords across time for backups in this week's Friday poll.
2011-05-27
186 reads
Can greedy executives be good for IT? Steve Jones thinks so and gives us a few reasons today.
2011-05-26
209 reads
Steve Jones thinks that the Millennials have the right approach to work. There are many things that are more important than money.
2011-05-25
295 reads
This week Steve Jones reminds us that improving performance in T-SQL is not always obvious. Those little nuggets of knowledge can be very handy, which is why you should be regularly looking to acquire more of them.
2011-05-23
187 reads
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy talks about your annual review and how you might want to think about negotiating for a raise in advance.
2011-05-23
196 reads
This Friday Steve Jones wonders what types of bugs you find in software. Are there more prevalent because of design or coding?
2011-05-20
146 reads
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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