What's a Passive Server?
Today Steve Jones talks about licensing and the complexity if brings in various scenarios. Do your passive servers have to be licensed? What is the definition of "passive"?
2011-02-01
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Editorials
A Great Deal of Hot Air
Even though neither the science nor politics of climate change is fully established yet, the legislators and bureaucrats have smelt an opportunity to further tighten their grip on IT. A sign of things to come is the EU’s Code of Conduct for Data Centers on Energy Efficiency.
2011-01-31
103 reads
It's Almost Always the Humans
Today we have a reprint of an editorial from Sept 19, 2005 as Steve Jones is on vacation. In this one, Steve Jones reminds companies that saving money sometimes on Customer Service isn't as easy as you think.
2011-01-31
118 reads
Master Training
Steve Jones talks about the value of deep training. He is aiming to get some from SQLskills this year as part of their MCM training series, even without trying to pass the certification.
2011-01-27
174 reads
Help Us Help You
SQLServerCentral has a new place for discussions and Steve Jones hopes you use it. It's a forum built for critiquing and discussion the presentations that the SQL Server community shares with each other.
2011-01-24
86 reads
Is hyper-threading still relevant for SQL Server?
There still seems to be a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt, in the community, with regard to use of Hyper-threading (HT) with SQL Server workloads. So, how and when should it be used?
2011-01-24
807 reads
Changing the Past
This Friday Steve Jones explores archived data. Can you restate past results or change old data? This week Steve Jones asks how data professionals feel about this and what guidance they give to their customers.
2011-01-21
131 reads
The Face of BI for SQL Server
Donald Farmer recently left Microsoft, and he will be missed, but Steve Jones knows that there will be new faces to get to know.
2011-01-20
205 reads
Skunk Works
The idea of a skunk works is to build a project that works under the radar, by a small and loosely organized group of people. Used to fuel innovation, this is an idea that you might apply to SQL Server BI projects.
2011-01-19
178 reads
Data Scientists
Would you want to be a data scientist? Are you one now? Steve Jones talks about this skill that we might appreciate in our daily work.
2011-01-18
428 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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