Rating Bugs
How do you triage and rate the bugs that come in for software? How should Microsoft do this for SQL Server. Steve Jones has a few comments.
2010-08-23
106 reads
Editorials
Personal Investments
This Friday Steve Jones talks about your career, and training, and what you are doing about it.
2010-08-20
301 reads
Beyond Automation
Are there some things that are beyond automation in your company? Steve Jones comments on the difficulty of changing things with automation in some cases.
2010-08-19
282 reads
Penalties
Terry Childs gets sentenced for refusing to turn over passwords to his boss. Steve Jones reminds us that we work for someone and that we have to remember that when taking a stand.
2010-08-18
297 reads
Keeping Engaged
How can you better keep employees engaged in your company? Keep them happy and hopefully retain them for a long time? Steve Jones has some comments today.
2010-08-17
163 reads
A Server is Not a Machine
With cloud computing use growing, and SQL Server Azure becoming more popular, Steve Jones wishes this would become a product that the rest of us could deploy.
2010-08-16
162 reads
Turn a Bad Job into a Good Experience
Today we have a guest editorial from Tim Mitchell that tells you how to turn a bad job into something more.
2010-08-16
381 reads
The Value of Blogging
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about the value of blogging.
2010-08-13
141 reads
Failed IT Projects
A new theory of why some IT projects fail has Steve Jones intrigued, however he thinks we can do better, and not just with better developers.
2010-08-12
323 reads
The Bottom Line
A good employee should try to affect the bottom line in their company, striving to make a difference. Steve Jones passes on some advice on how to do that today.
2010-08-11
174 reads
Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Forums
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
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What's the Date?
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Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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