Manager of One
Are you a manager of one? Steve Jones say show this might be a good thing to be. You might improve your chances of landing the next job by showing your employer that you can be more productive.
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Early Access Edition Now Available
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, a new book written by 53 SQL Server MVPs, is now available as an eBook,...
Investing In Your Career
Do you invest in your own career? Should you? Steve Jones asks the question in today's Friday poll.
Configure disaster recovery across SharePoint farms by using SQL Server log shipping
This article describes how to use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 log shipping to create a disaster recovery farm in a geographically distributed data center for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2 (SP2). By using this configuration, you can provide a disaster recovery site that provides current search results when a failover occurs. The article assumes that you are familiar with the concepts and terms presented in Plan for availability (Office SharePoint Server).
Investing In Your Career
Do you invest in your own career? Should you? Steve Jones asks the question in today's Friday poll.
Investing In Your Career
Do you invest in your own career? Should you? Steve Jones asks the question in today's Friday poll.
Investing In Your Career
Do you invest in your own career? Should you? Steve Jones asks the question in today's Friday poll.
My Journey - Part I
I've actually been meaning to write about my journey as a SQL Server professional, but kept putting it off. I...
SQL Server 2005 Index Best Practices
In continuing with our series of tips on Best Practices for SQL Server I'm turning my sights on Maintenance. Specifically in this tip we will be discussing Index maintenance: when, if, why, and how are questions that will be addressed.
Are you looking to Hadoop?
Hadoop is an interesting new software project in the Linux world that deals with large data sets. Steve Jones wonders if anyone in the SQL Server world has started working with it.
Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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