Pimp My Data Center
Steve Jones talks about the changing capabilities and flexibilities of data centers as technologies change.
Infinite Seizure - Database Weekly (2008/8/4)
This week's Database Weekly editorial examines the US policy of potentially seizing laptops for an infinite period when you enter the country.
Infinite Seizure - Database Weekly (2008/8/4)
This week's Database Weekly editorial examines the US policy of potentially seizing laptops for an infinite period when you enter the country.
Infinite Seizure - Database Weekly (2008/8/4)
This week's Database Weekly editorial examines the US policy of potentially seizing laptops for an infinite period when you enter the country.
Social Profiling
This Friday Steve Jones talks about the social networking phenomenon and asks how it should affect your career?
The Basics of Sizing a SQL Server Database
Sizing a database can be one of the most arduous tasks a DBA, analyst or developer must attend to. It?s time consuming and more hours go into analyzing the database than actually sizing it. This article focuses on how to monitor the database?s growth after its deployed and contains some tips on how to size it before deployment. We will also dive a little into how to benchmark your database against a robust data load.
Achieve Flexible Data Modeling with the Entity Framework
Here the author answers questions regarding the Entity Framework and provides an understanding of how and why it was developed.
Performance Optimizations for the XML Data Type in SQL Server 2005
This paper explores several ideas to improve the query and data modification performance of the XML data type in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. To get the most value from this paper, you need to be familiar with the XML features in SQL Server 2005. For background material, see XML Support in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and XML Best Practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on the Microsoft Development Network (MSDN)
A Simple DR Solution
Tjay Belt brings us a quick and easy DR solution that might provide you some protection if you don't have a DR plan and want some lessons learned in this area.
Creating Views - SQL School Video
This video covers the basics of creating a view in SQL Server. Views allow you to treat a query as a table and simplify your query writing. This view covers the Query Designer in Management Studio.
Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
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Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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