2010-06-08
89 reads
Editorials
Knowing What's Normal
This week Database Weekly has a lot of performance related posts and Steve Jones notes that those are not of much use unless you know you really do have a performance problem.
2010-06-07
158 reads
What Will We Take For Granted Tomorrow?
A guest editorial from Tim Mitchell today looks at technology, and how quickly we become accustomed to it.
2010-06-07
127 reads
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
153 reads
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
125 reads
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
173 reads
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
135 reads
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
249 reads
2010-05-31
60 reads
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
164 reads
Blogs
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Forums
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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