In Case of Breach
Do you know what to do in case of a data breach? Steve Jones talks about the importance of having a "runbook" for security that covers the same types of things you might need to know for disaster recovery.
Tackle the Question of the Day on your cell phone
SQLServerCentral has a mobile site to enable you to access the question of the day from your cell phone.
31 Days of SSIS – Raw Files Are Awesome (1/31)
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS. Let’s start off this series with a...
January Question: As a DBA, how do you manage your disk space?
Managing disk space is an important resposibility of the DBA, and there are many ways to perform this task. In...
Monitor SQL Server Agent Jobs with Policy Based Management
I need to monitor all the SQL Agents to find out if a job failed in the last 24 hours. Could this be done with policy based management? If so, can you show me how to create the policy?
Welcome to 2011
After the holidays, Steve Jones welcomes everyone in the SQLServerCentral community to the new year and talks about goals and your career.
Can You Dig It? – StmtCursor and StmtReceive Elements
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittA few posts ago in the plan cache series I discussed the children for the...
Identity Property Range Checking in SQL Server
This article examines practical methods of managing and monitoring large tables which make use of the IDENTITY property.
Being Careful with Power
It's good to be careful with your power consumption, especially as the power cost of computing continues to grow. However with your SQL Server, you don't want to be too careful, as Steve Jones notes.
Clouds Are In our Future
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren looking at the future of cloud computing and SQL Server.
Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
Forums
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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Secure Communications
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Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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