Sharepoint Growth is Good
Sharepoint is a product that many IT people despise, but it's a popular seller for Microsoft. Steve Jones thinks that Sharepoint's growth is a good thing for DBAs as well.
2009-10-28
271 reads
Editorials
The DBA Dilemma: How Many DBAs Does It Take to Manage an Infrastructure?
Today we have a guest editorial from Rodney Landrum. Rodney and his team of DBAs manage 110 active servers, throughout a regionally dispersed organization. How many DBAs would you expect to be on Rodney's team...?
2009-10-27
661 reads
Low Hanging Fruit
An open letter asks Google to change their default protocol to be more secure. Are there things that we might want to do inside SQL Server to make it more secure by default? Any low hanging fruit that would help the platform?
2009-10-26
56 reads
Virtualization and Preparation
The DBA news of the week contains some interesting thoughts on DR and virtualization plans. Steve Jones comments on why you should care about these topics.
2009-10-26
232 reads
The Value of Experience
What type of previous experience makes a good DBA? Is it necessary to have other experience? Steve Jones asks the question in today's Friday poll.
2009-10-23
205 reads
What Do We Want from PASS?
With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.
2009-10-22
125 reads
Data and Customer Service
Businesses are always looking to collect data on their customers. However when they are fgiven this data, there is a level of trust from the consumer that is expected of the business. Guest editor John Magnabosco talks about the need for database professionals to take care that we are honoring this trust.
2009-10-21
83 reads
Being Around Smart People is Exciting
Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.
2009-10-20
84 reads
A Wish list for the Microsoft Flying Squad
Microsoft is very willing to lend its ear to new feature requests, but sometimes forgets to finish off the ones we've got.
2009-10-19
57 reads
Ask SQLServerCentral
A new feature is available on SQLServerCentral, and Steve Jones talks a little about how it fits in with your strategy here at the site. Visit ask.sqlservercentral.com and let us know what you think.
2009-10-19
122 reads
Blogs
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...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
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A Fun Computer Quote
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