The Simple Estimate
Why can't it be easy for someone to tackle small projects? It is in some areas, and Steve Jones talks a little about some of the issues.
2009-06-16
107 reads
Editorials
Are You an Exceptional DBA?
The Exceptional DBA award is back again in 2009. Steve Jones comments a little on his experience last year.
2009-06-15
204 reads
Barriers to Virtualization
Virtualization, and use of the 'cloud', will be essential to the deployment of new applications, but will existing applications will be quite so amenable?
2009-06-15
297 reads
Back to the Future
Steve Jones asks this Friday if there is anything you wish you might have done differently.
2009-06-12
112 reads
Who's At Fault
Who do you blame when software fails? Hopefully you don't hire a lawyer before you do. Steve Jones talks about liability and software.
2009-06-11
138 reads
Support Your Local SQL Server User’s Group
Are user groups dying out in the age of the Internet? It seemed that way for awhile, but Brad McGehee gives some reasons why you should think about attending a meeting.
2009-06-09
246 reads
CLR Triggers in SQL Servers
Do CLR triggers really represent the most popular usage of CLR in enterprise SQL Servers? Phil Factor wants to know if this is the case, and if so, what on earth are they doing?
2009-06-08
510 reads
Software Giants
Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. What does this mean for SQL Server? Steve Jones thinks it's good.
2009-06-08
197 reads
Shaking the Money Tree
Are developers or administrators worth more? Is it easier to get funding for one group or the other? Steve Jones asks the question in today's poll.
2009-06-05
149 reads
Syncing Releases
Is the future for product releases and upgrades, to be synchronized with point releases? Steve Jones relishes the possibility.
2009-06-04
132 reads
Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
Forums
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
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