Attending a conference and hearing about all the latest and greatest new features is a bit like spending holiday sampling exotic seafood and imbibing strange new cocktails. When you return, you're decidedly in the mood for a pie and a pint of beer.
2008-12-01
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We can now clearly see two opposing trends in the way SQL Server is being used in applications. The dumb database brigade regards SQL Server as simply a 'data dump'. The 'database fanatics' think SQL Server on its own can meet the needs of all but the most demanding applications. Can these opposing trends be reconciled? Tony Davis would like to think so.
2008-12-01
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Phil Factor talks a bit about the SQLServerCentral community and how we all get something different from it.
2008-11-28
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2008-11-27
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2008-11-26
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A bit of a rant today from Steve Jones after running into a situation that seems to make no sense these days.
2008-11-25
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Phil wonders whether it is time to come up with clear 'best practice' guidelines to cover the use of undocumented routines, and ends up deciding it is a gray area.
2008-11-24
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While most DBAs might never encounter the legal aspects of their professional, Phil Factor brings to light a few things that you might want to be aware of in these litigious times.
2008-11-20
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As data professionals we need to be sure that we can present back the data we receive. Perhaps other people should embrace this mantra in other lines of work.
2008-11-19
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Is Open Source something you should examine with the economy diving down? Steve Jones talks about a few of the issues.
2008-11-18
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By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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