Data Ownership
Sometimes determining who owns the data or information isn't that easy. Steve Jones has an example from the US election in 2008.
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SQL errors and other failures fixed from the trenches
Solve your SQL Server error, problem or installation failure with this advice. Learn how to fix SQL performance errors and suspect data recovery problems.
SQL Server Sanity: Maintain Healthy Transaction Logs for Easy Data Recovery
Learn how executing frequent backups and maintaining healthy transaction logs in SQL Server leads to quick recovery. Failing to do so can mean having to re-enter a lot of data.
Enough - Database Weekly (Oct. 20, 2008)
The loss of data is getting ridiculous. Steve Jones wants companies and government to do something about it.
Who Wants to Be Rich?
With all the concern over the economy lately, Steve Jones talks about about finances and tries to bring perspective to those of us in the real world.
Who Wants to Be Rich?
With all the concern over the economy lately, Steve Jones talks about about finances and tries to bring perspective to those of us in the real world.
SQL Server 2000 Useful Undocumented Stored Procedures
In this article, Alexander Chigrik looks at some useful undocumented stored procedures that shipped with SQL Server 2000.
The Financial Crisis
With the economy slowing the the world facing a financial crisis, Steve Jones polls the man on the street this Friday.
Who was that Affinity Masked Man?
Getting the number of processor cores that SQL Server is using is not as straitforward as it could be. Enter the affinity mask, bitwise operations and good old fashioned computer science.
Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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Question of the Day
The Max PK Length
If I create a multiple column Primary Key constraint, what is the most number of bytes I can include in the constraint?
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