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
109 reads
Editorials
Personal Investments
This Friday Steve Jones talks about your career, and training, and what you are doing about it.
2010-08-20
306 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
284 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
308 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
164 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
165 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
397 reads
The Value of Blogging
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about the value of blogging.
2010-08-13
154 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
327 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
176 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Enum Implementation: A...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers