Software for Profit
Steve Jones will be attending the Business of Software conference in September and gives a few reasons why this is an interesting topic to him.
2008-07-14
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Editorials
The Database Weekly Update for July 14, 2008
Steve Jones talks about data mining in the drug industry and the advantages of cheap software.
2008-07-14
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DIY
For this Friday, Steve Jones has a poll about life outside of work and how much you tinker with things.
2008-07-11
98 reads
The Value of an MBA in IT
Do you have an MBA? If so, has it helped you? Is it worth getting one for someone in IT? Ted Pin comments.
2008-07-10
611 reads
What's an MVP?
What does it mean to be an MVP for Microsoft? Steve Jones talks about what the award is and what it means to get the award.
2008-07-09
323 reads
Land Mines
Security can be a hassle, but Steve Jones talks about why we sometimes put up with the difficulties of implementing strong security.
2008-07-08
98 reads
Enough is Enough
When do you decide that enough is enough? When does it make sense to let some bugs go and fix them later? Steve Jones comments on the decisions you sometimes make.
2008-07-07
139 reads
The Database Weekly Update for July 7, 2008
Intel is moving in the direction of more and more cores on a single CPU, so what does that mean for programmers?
2008-07-07
31 reads
Happy 4th of July
A blooper collection of mistakes and errors from a variety of editorials on this holiday weekend.
2008-07-04
245 reads
2008-07-03
191 reads
Blogs
Getting References for GenAI Results
By Steve Jones
I wrote an editorial on the view of GenAI tech from execs and someone...
SQL Server 2025 Is Here – AI Just Changed Everything!
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Top 10 Features of SQL Server 2025 #SQLServer2025 #MicrosoftSQL #DatabaseUpdates #SQLAI #SQLFeatures #SQLServerCopilot #VectorSearch...
SQL Blunders: Stop Writing These Pointless Queries & Write Smarter!
They run, they return data. So what? Some SQL queries just waste your time...
Forums
High Availability Reversed - Force secondary unless failure
Hi I have sql2022 in H/A with a primary and a secondary server. My...
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