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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New AI tools are discovering older vulnerabilities in software, as well as new ones. Get ready for a bunch of patches to come out.
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Steve has thoughts about those of us struggling to keep up with technology changes.
2026-05-08
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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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This editorial discusses how to help others take their first step into contributing to the community
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Tools are important to DBAs, but they need to be reliable, both in what they do, and how they work.
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The spring PASS On Tour event is coming to Chicago in a few weeks.
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