The December 2008 Energy Update
Steve Jones gives one last update on energy issues in the US in 2008 with a look at the construction and building industries.
The December 2008 Energy Update
Steve Jones gives one last update on energy issues in the US in 2008 with a look at the construction and building industries.
The December 2008 Energy Update
Steve Jones gives one last update on energy issues in the US in 2008 with a look at the construction and building industries.
Changing Taxonomy
Steve Jones is considering changes to SQLServerCentral and presents a few ideas today.
Changing Taxonomy
Steve Jones is considering changes to SQLServerCentral and presents a few ideas today.
Changing Taxonomy
Steve Jones is considering changes to SQLServerCentral and presents a few ideas today.
How Would You Rate This? - Database Weekly (Dec 29, 2008)
Steve Jones wonders if Microsoft is doing a good job with their efforts to patch SQL Server security issues?
SSIS and Stored procedures using temp tables
SSIS has a problem with stored procedures that use temporary tables to generate output. This article describes a useful technique for working around this problem.
Finding a better candidate for your clustered indexes
When creating tables it is difficult to determine exactly how the data will be accessed. Therefore when clustered indexes are chosen they are often just the ID column that makes the row unique. This may be a good choice, but once the application has been used and data access statistics are available you may need to go back and make some adjustments to your tables to ensure your clustered indexes are providing a benefit and not a drain on your applications.
Blogs
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...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to the on-prem
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
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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