Living Moore's Law
eBay has quite a new data center in Utah, replacing all their hardware on a two year cycle. Steve Jones thinks that would be a challenge, and an exciting one at that.
2010-10-19
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Editorials
Software Assurance Cuts Back
Software Assurance from Microsoft is losing a benefit and Steve Jones comments.
2010-10-18
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When Times are Tough, Do You Rise to the Occasion?
Life isn't fair, and things don't always go your way. In fact, most people hit a tough patch sooner or later. When that happens to you, how do you respond?
2010-10-18
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Risk Analysis
This Friday Steve Jones asks about your spending on Disaster Recovery and is it in line with the risks involved.
2010-10-15
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From One of the Pack to ‘Top Dog’ – Honeymoon Period Over!
In part two of his editorial series on moving to being a manager, Justin H-Davies talks about the challenges that are evolving of being a manager.
2010-10-14
168 reads
Yikes!
Did malware cause a plane crash? Not likely, but Steve Jones warns us it could and we need to be very security conscious when we have computers linked together in transportation systems.
2010-10-13
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2010-10-11
107 reads
Downtime
How does someone handle downtime in a small business? Steve Jones has some thoughts today based on a question sent in recently.
2010-10-11
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Differences
Today Steve Jones wraps up this week of editorial topics looking at women's issues with his own views on men and women in the workplace.
2010-10-08
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Gender Differences in the Workplace
Today we have a guest editorial from MVP Jessica Moss that talks about the gender differences in the workplace, and how you can work to get beyond them.
2010-10-07
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Blogs
PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
A New Word: Dead Reckoning
By Steve Jones
dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would...
PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Slides and Code
By alevyinroc
Thank you for attending my PASS Summit 2025 session Answering the Auditor’s Call with...
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Getting the Schema for Tables
What happens when I run this on SQL Server 2022 in the AdventureWorks2022 database?
SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION (OBJECT_ID(N'Person.Person')) AS [Object Definition]; GOSee possible answers