The Cost of Support
Microsoft is not planning on releasing Service Pack 3, but what is the best model for supporting software? Steve Jones gives a few thoughts.
2008-04-07
93 reads
Editorials
2008-04-04
123 reads
A Scary Comparison
What changes are coming in the editions for SQL Server 2008. Steve Jones finds a rather scary piece of literature.
2008-04-02
546 reads
April Bloopers
Steve takes a day off from the editorials with this blooper reel from the podcasts. Be sure to watch the video.
2008-04-01
186 reads
The Exceptional DBA
There are many SQL Server DBAs with an intimate knowledge of how SQL Server works, the operating system, hardware and so on. They have the skills to keep a production system running without a hitch. It is no longer enough.
2008-03-31
1,006 reads
The March Car Update
Steve Jones' bimonthly update on the state of transportation and what's happening with his Prius.
2008-03-31
278 reads
The Credit Debate
As databases grow, we store more and more types of data. This Friday's poll asks what types of data you don't want to store.
2008-03-28
114 reads
Social Software
More and more companies are looking to use social software, like Facebook, to link employees, but is this a good thing?
2008-03-27
182 reads
Bad Automation
Coming up with ways to do things automatically with software can be a boon to productivity, but not every idea is a good one.
2008-03-26
107 reads
March Madness
How disruptive is the annual college basketball tournament to work? Steve Jones doesn't think it's a problem.
2008-03-25
53 reads
Blogs
PASS Keynote Shots
By Steve Jones
Rodney Kidd took some great shots of the keynote and published an album here:...
Microsoft AI Red Teaming Course
By Brian Kelley
here is the compiled video of the Red Teaming course Microsoft put together.
What’s New at AWS re:Invent 2025 – Day2 Highlights
Day 2 kicked off with Matt Garman’s keynote, and he opened with a quote...
Forums
Veeam Backup DAG issue. Access to availability group is not permitted.
Hi all, Has anyone encountered an issue whereby using a distributed availability group...
need to kill long running SPIDs
hi, i have seen in my server sometimes some SPIDs get stuck. so we...
Improving update statistics process for 6 big tables
Recently I was asked to investigate the update statistics process on a particular database....
Question of the Day
Adding a Lot of Seconds
When does this code work and when does it fail?
DECLARE @BaseDate DATETIME = '1900-01-01'; SELECT DATEADD(SECOND, 2147483648, @BaseDate) AS [MaxIntSecondsAdded];See possible answers