2020-05-30
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Editorials
Crack that Encrypted Data
Ransomware is becoming an issue. Steve Jones notes DBAs need to be ready to deal with these issues.
2020-05-29 (first published: 2016-04-19)
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The Challenges of Working Under Quarantine
It's been nearly two months since the Redgate Software offices closed. I am not normally in the office, but I did cancel a trip that I normally would have taken to touch base with a number of teams. That's a minor change for me, but a still a change. It's much less than the disruption that […]
2020-05-28
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Jumping Air Gaps
There are all sorts of viruses, worms, and malware out in the world, and some of us have had to deal with them at different points in our career. SQL Slammer was particularly memorable for me, but there were plenty of non data related virus issues I've had to work on at various employers. To […]
2020-05-27
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Enriching Your Life
As I was looking to build career goals for the new year, I think mostly about technical topics. That makes sense, given my focus and job, but I ran across an interesting thread on Hacker News that asked about skills to work on in 2020, and not necessarily technical ones. I did find it interesting […]
2020-05-26
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Building Better Software for Everyone
Building better software might be a bit more work when we consider ensuring everyone can use our work.
2020-05-25
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The Build Book of News
Every year Microsoft has held the Build conference for developers. I've been lucky enough to go a few times, and I was hoping to get the chance to attend again. With the pandemic, the entire event went virtual, and was held across 48 continuous hours. I was slightly disappointed as a few sessions I wanted […]
2020-05-23
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The Life List
Today Steve notes that having a list of things to do before you die can be a driving force for you.
2020-05-22
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Writing Before Reading
We often learn to write code before we really learn to read it, which seems like a problem to Steve.
2020-05-21
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Investing in Speed
Much of what we do to improve ourselves is an investment in our work. The same thing could be said about businesses. Today a little advice about making an investment.
2020-05-20
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Blogs
Social: Going Along to Get Along
By Steve Jones
It’s the eve of the Fourth of July, when the Declaration of Independence is...
Daily Coping 3 Jul 2020
By Steve Jones
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Using Docker Volumes for SQL Server in Linux
By John
No, not that kind of volume! Over the past couple of blog posts, I...
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