2010-07-05
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Editorials
Should DBAs Be the Protectors of Data?
Brad McGehee wonders whether DBA's should take a more active role in managing their organization's data, even if it means potentially ruffling a few feathers.
2010-07-05
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Are We Not Testing Enough?
This Friday Steve Jones asks if we are setting the bar high enough when interviewing people and would you want to test more?
2010-07-02
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Lost Data
Steve Jones talks about the loss of data, and how it can impact your life. And why you want to be sure that your restores are ready in the event of a disaster.
2010-07-01
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On Being the 2009 Exceptional DBA
A guest editorial from Josef Richberg, winner of the Exceptional DBA contests in 2009.
2010-06-30
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The Breakfast Plan Goes Awry
A simple motivational plan goes sideways in this guest editorial from Andy Warren.
2010-06-29
190 reads
Kudos to the Community
Steve Jones takes a day to thank everyone that donates their time to help others in the community.
2010-06-28
73 reads
The Great Forum Debate
Phil discusses the pros and cons of the traditional versus stack overflow-style model for forum debate, and wonders whether there is a database model that would support all these different forms of discussion, or cooperative work, so that we can simply fit the 'visualization' to the nature of the particular discussion.
2010-06-28
93 reads
The Phantom DBA
This week Steve Jones has a poll about the difficulties in getting the DBA position into companies. What's your current opinion of this profession?
2010-06-25
307 reads
Dinosaur Databases
Do you work on a database system that's a dinosaur? A recent article called out RDBMSse as dinosaurs, but Steve Jones doesn't think that's correct.
2010-06-24
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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