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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Editorials
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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Clustered Indexes? Sedimentary, my dear Watson
There is much sound advice suggesting that every table should have a clustered index, and that narrow, integer, ever-increasing columns, such as afforded by an IDENTITY column are the best choice. But is the sedimentary approach really the natural order of the day?
2010-05-24
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Where a Rose is not a rose…
Just because mistakes have become entrenched in the computer languages that we use doesn't mean we have to tolerate them
2010-05-21
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Blogs
Giving AI Agents Visibility Into SQL Server with MCP
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an...
The Book of Redgate: Profits
By Steve Jones
Redgate is a for-profit company. We look to make money by building and selling...
Session Materials for Techorama & DataGrillen 2026
I’ve uploaded the slides for my Techorama session Microsoft Fabric for Dummies and my...
Forums
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