It's the Bits
A woman sues Best Buy for $54million. That's absurd, but her laptop is worth more than the hardware. This editorial was originally published on Mar 3, 2008. It is being re-run as Steve is traveling.
Making the Case for a SQL Server Platform Refresh
With the release of Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, and the new generation of Sandy Bridge Xeon processors, your organization is likely to get many tangible benefits from upgrading your current database infrastructure with a complete platform refresh.
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Tester and Other Festive Arrangements
A Christmas poem and a contest from Simple Talk.
Some tips for working with big data models
The main goal of this article is to present some tips to help professionals that need to work with complex, big, and hard to understand database models that anyone may came across some day.
The Load Poll
This Friday Steve Jones asks what the load on your systems are. Do you know what it is and how it compares to other systems?
Setting up a Data Science Laboratory
There is no better way of understanding new data processing, retrieval, analysis or visualising techniques than actually trying things out. In order to do this, it is best to use a server that acts as data science lab, with all the basic tools and sample data in place. Buck Woody discusses his system, and the configuration he chose.
Eleven Challenges in Unifying Reference Data
Unifying the reference data across an enterprise can be a bigger job than expected. This article describes one approach to doing so.
The Auto OS
Automobiles are becoming more complex, with more computerized systems every year. Steve Jones talks about some advances and how we must be sure that security is a part of future design considerations.
PASS Data Architecture VC presents James Serra on Introduction to Master Data Services
On Thursday August 20th 12PM noon Central, James Serra will discuss how companies can consolidate their enterprise data with the new feature of SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services.
SQL Server 2012 Cluster with TempDB on Local Disk
With the introduction of SQL Server 2012 Microsoft officially supports local disk TempDB in SQL Server cluster configurations. This tip will show you how to configure TempDB on a local disk when installing your SQL Server 2012 cluster.
Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
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Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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