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
190 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
197 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
147 reads
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Most people get an annual review that determines what their salary change might be for the next year. Does 3% make a difference? Andy Warren asks the question today.
2011-05-19
279 reads
What do yo do if you find malicious code in your system? Delete it? Steve Jones suggests that a honeypot might be a better idea.
2011-05-18
187 reads
Would you rather work longer hours or tackle harder work? Steve Jones comments today on a recent post by Seth Godin. The answer as to what most people prefer might surprise you.
2011-05-17
289 reads
If you are looking to move into management, do you need an MBA? It's nice, but Steve Jones notes that many people are realizing that an MBA doesn't necessarily prepare you to manage other people or lead them in a company.
2011-05-16
222 reads
As it gets easier to attend events virtually, it's worth considering what the literal, financial value is of physical attendance.
2011-05-16
85 reads
How important is it that your server record all changes to every row? Probably very important and that is one of the foundations on which RDBMS platforms are built. Steve Jones talks about this being a difference with some NoSQL systems, and why it might not be acceptable to most businesses.
2011-05-10
219 reads
Storage costs are constantly rising, especially for databases as we gather more and more data. However not all of our data is necessarily the same priority or requires the same hardware. Steve Jones talks about the benefits you might get if you can tier your storage.
2011-05-09
232 reads
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item BIT_COUNT() V
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How We Reduced SQL Server...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item An Eventual Consistency Scam
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers