The Community Has Been Heard
Steve Jones talked about the announcements of Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2005 and Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2008 in this editorial.
2010-02-15
173 reads
Editorials
Safety in Numbers
One of the core things a DBA must do is ensure backup and recovery of data. This Friday Steve Jones asks about your tolerance for safety and backup data in a Friday poll.
2010-02-12
123 reads
The Best Laptop
Steve Jones recently went on a search for a new laptop, looking for the "best" one for him. But what it the best? And is it worth pursuing?
2010-02-10
510 reads
An Administrative Security Hole?
Is it a problem for SQL Server to have a backdoor that lets a Windows Administrator connect as a sysadmin? Steve Jones thinks so and gives a reason why this might be a problem.
2010-02-09
206 reads
Democratizing the Microsoft MVP Award
Tony Davis believes that it's time for a little more openness and democracy in the MVP award. In short, it's time to introduce community voting.
2010-02-08
137 reads
Measures and Rules
Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey that discusses the idea of rules based on certain types of measurements. Are they worth following? Or do we need to develop our own measures.
2010-02-08
369 reads
What Do You Include in Your Database Maintenance Plans?
A guest editorial from Brad McGeHee today talks about maintenance plans and his new book.
2010-02-04
581 reads
Too Good to be True? The Story Behind SQL Search
A guest editorial today from Simon Galbraith, founder of Red Gate Software talking about SQL Search, a new product that was developed in an interesting way.
2010-02-03
347 reads
Coding By The Sea
An interesting experiment at Red Gate, Coding By the Sea, produced results, and Steve Jones thinks this could be a great idea for other companies.
2010-02-02
163 reads
Get In a Line
Steve Jones talks a little about disk alignment for your SQL Server instances. This is something that you might to check on your systems and see if you can improve performance.
2010-02-01
142 reads
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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