Limited Features or Limited Time?
A guest editorial today from Andy Warren. When someone is looking to introduce a free version of a product, what's the best way to tackle it?
2010-06-04
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Editorials
Change the Edition or Change the Design?
Today Steve Jones talks about revisiting your design and perhaps thinking about buying another edition of SQL Server to take advantage of some feature.
2010-06-03
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Loud
Working in an office was quite a change for Steve Jones recently. He comments today that it might be something you need to consider when hiring others as well.
2010-06-02
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TCA
SQL Server has a lower TCA, total cost of administration, than Oracle. Steve Jones comments today on a few of the reasons.
2010-06-01
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Getting the Message
Regardless of the speed of your SQL routines there comes a time, for any server-based system, when you need to think "parallel" and "asynchronous". So why, Phil Factor wonders, does there seem to be so little interest in Service Broker?
2010-05-31
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2010-05-31
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Would You Do Your Hobby for a Living
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that asks about your hobbies, and would you trade your job for one of them?
2010-05-28
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Personal Privacy
A new technique to help anonymize medical research data has been developed, and could help with other types of data, but there is an issue.
2010-05-27
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The Death March
Are you working too hard? Is it worth it? Steve Jones says that it is not and that you should push back.
2010-05-25
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A Smarter Planet
IBM has this tagline about a smarter planet and has a great video about the Internet of Things. Steve Jones looks at some of the issues we might have in actually using all this data.
2010-05-24
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Blogs
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...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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