Why I Don’t Like Shared Development Databases
Today, Kendra explains why she doesn't like shared development databases.
2026-05-15 (first published: 2020-01-31)
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Editorials
Writing Before Reading
We often learn to write code before we really learn to read it, which seems like a problem to Steve.
2026-05-13 (first published: 2020-05-21)
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Other IDEs
This editorial was originally published on Jun 17, 2020. It is being republished as Steve is out of town. Let us know if you've changed your SQL IDEs since then. Most of us use SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) to manage our SQL Server instances or to write database code. However, Microsoft does give us […]
2026-05-11 (first published: 2020-06-17)
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The New Wave of Security Threats
New AI tools are discovering older vulnerabilities in software, as well as new ones. Get ready for a bunch of patches to come out.
2026-05-09
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There's Too Much to Learn
Steve has thoughts about those of us struggling to keep up with technology changes.
2026-05-08
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The Dangers of Dependencies
Single points of failure are bad, but what if an employee's action is the single point of failure for access to services? That would be a bad day for any organization.
2026-05-06
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2026-05-04
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What Are You Waiting For?
This editorial discusses how to help others take their first step into contributing to the community
2026-05-02
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A Tool is Better than a Script
Tools are important to DBAs, but they need to be reliable, both in what they do, and how they work.
2026-05-01
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2026-04-29
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Blogs
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