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
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Editorials
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
97 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
311 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
416 reads
The Schema Debate
There was quite a bit of debate over the use of schemas recently on the Internet. Steve Jones talks about some of the reasons why you might want a schema, and a few reasons why you might not.
2010-06-22
638 reads
Making Your Career Go Further
Steve Jones comments on a few things that can help you, and are worth keeping in mind as you interact with people.
2010-06-21
249 reads
Moving to the Cloud
There has been a lot of talk about moving to cloud based computing, and cloud based services. Steve Jones comments on what this might mean today.
2010-06-21
312 reads
2010-06-18
263 reads
Selling Used Cars
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at the value of experience.
2010-06-17
209 reads
Archive Backups
The need to archive data is becoming more and more important as data sizes grow. However when you choose to archive data, you might need to reconsider how your DR plan is structured.
2010-06-16
247 reads
Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
Forums
The Max PK Length
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My experience using the GitHub Copilot in SSMS 22
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The Microsoft SQL Year in Review
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Question of the Day
The Max PK Length
If I create a multiple column Primary Key constraint, what is the most number of bytes I can include in the constraint?
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