The Cloud
I was interested to hear about Microsoft providing some services and storage in the "Cloud." I remember hearing about Amazon making disk space and computing services available to users.
2007-09-12
259 reads
Editorials
What Could Go Wrong?
It's the law of unintended consequences: things happening that you don't expect from a seemingly unrelated area. This article talks about a data center having leaks from carpet cleaning above. The concrete floor had aged and the carpet cleaners dumped water on the carpet to soak it through and it leaked. I'm not sure how people have data centers below office floors, but I know I've had a number of them at different companies where I've worked.
2007-09-12
145 reads
The July Car Update (2007)
Steve Jones bimonthly car update looks at driving in the UK and the differences in cars between the US and elsewhere.
2007-07-30
38 reads
2007-07-04
24 reads
The June Energy Update (2007)
Steve Jones takes a look at energy news and how Google and Microsoft are looking to lower their dependence on the grid and advance alternative energy use.
2007-06-27
14 reads
The May Car Update (2007)
Steve Jones takes a look at the world of automobiles and specifically his new Prius hybrid.
2007-05-29
39 reads
Where Did The Women Go?
A guest editorial today from Atieh Jones wondering where are all the women in IT?
2007-02-14
124 reads
Would I encourage my daughter to pursue a career in IT?
A guest editorial today from Lynda Rab, PASS board member and new mother.
2007-02-13
46 reads
The Old Boys Club
Steve Jones looks at some of the issues with gender in the workplace and reminds everyone that they need to respect each other.
2007-02-12
22 reads
The Certification Debate
Steve Jones talks about the ne value of the new certification program from Microsoft.
2006-11-20
581 reads
Blogs
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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