A Worthwhile Goal
Steve Jones talks about two competing priorities for many people that start at a new job and asks which one you value more in this Friday poll.
2008-05-16
115 reads
Editorials
2008-05-15
185 reads
Encrypting Data
Encrypting data is the easy part of dealing with encryption and databases. Steve Jones talks about some of the other, more difficult, issues you must handle.
2008-05-14
978 reads
The CLR
The CLR was one of the highly touted additions to SQL Server 2005, and one of the reasons for its long development cycle. Steve Jones comments on why it hasn't been that widely used.
2008-05-13
607 reads
Boycott?
Steve Jones asks for some opinions on how to approach the new timeframe of software releases.
2008-05-12
170 reads
Planes, Trains, and Cows?
New technologies often bring with them lots of new data. Steve Jones talks about some changes that we might see with new RFID technology being deployed in some industries.
2008-05-08
86 reads
Recognizing Talent
Microsoft made a sizeable big for Yahoo and Steve Jones talks about one of the more interesting aspects of that bid that didn't receive much press.
2008-05-07
127 reads
Getting Organized
As DBAs we should be very detail oriented, but Steve Jones talks about some challenges with keeping up with your tasks and projects and some software that might help.
2008-05-06
209 reads
Database Weekly - May 5, 2008
A look back at the news of the past week dealing with SQL Injection, slow SQL Server growth and two level security.
2008-05-05
51 reads
Managing Disk Space
How often do you worry about your database size and free space? Steve Jones asks how you administer your SQL Server database space this Friday.
2008-05-02
1,099 reads
Blogs
Prime Day Recommendations
By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Spending Time in the Office
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers