Social Engineering Dangers
Social engineering is one of the most effective ways to hack information out of a company. Steve Jones looks at this technique and a recent contest at DefCon that featured social engineering.
Ways to minimize sort operations
In this article Brian Ellul explorea how it's possible to eliminate the SORT operator (and its performance cost) on performing SELECTS statements.
Issuing Current Time Increments in StreamInsight (A Practical Example)
The issuing of a Current Time Increment, Cti, in StreamInsight is very definitely one of the most important concepts to learn if you want your Streams to be responsive. A full discussion of how to issue Ctis is beyond the scope of this article but a very good explanation in addition to Books Online can be found in these three articles by a member of the StreamInsight team at Microsoft, Ciprian Gerea.
SQL Saturday #49 - Orlando
A free, one day training event taking place on October 16, 2010 in Orlando, FL.
Inside the Optimizer: Constructing a Plan - Part 3
Join Paul White in part three of a four-part series exploring the internals of query optimization as he looks at the rules that are used to build the execution plan.
More Than SQL
Today Steve Jones talks about the upcoming SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado, and how it's encompassing more than just a day of SQL learning.
SQL Saturday #55 - San Diego
The first SQL Saturday in San Diego kicks off fall with a full day of free SQL Server information, lectures, and seminars from the experts on the West Coast.
SQL Social - Kent, UK
Andrew Calvett talks Analysis Services for the September meeting of the Kent SQL Server user's group.
Synchronizing SQL Server and SQL Azure
SQL Azure Data Sync provides data synchronization between the cloud and local SQL Server databases. Learn how SQL Azure Data Sync allows you to keep the most concurrent information in the cloud while allowing mobile users, businesses, and enterprise data sources all to have access to this data.
Getting Fired from an Unpaid Job.
Phil Factor initially brooded about being fired from a job he was just doing unpaid to help out. Then he suddenly realized that they were probably right.
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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