How Do You Setup Your Instances?
This week Steve wonders if you have a process for setting up your new instances.
2018-09-14
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Editorials
We Don't Have Perfect Information
Trying to pick the perfect schedule at a conference is fraught with issues.
2018-09-12
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2018-09-11
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Is Forgiveness Possible?
Recently, there was a prominent film director fired from directing an episode in a very entertaining and profitable movie franchise. His firing was for tweets he made that were in very bad taste. And bad doesn’t begin to cover it, they were about topics that were universally despicable. What made this interesting was not that […]
2018-09-10
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The Hybrid Cloud
There are lots of options with cloud providers and hybrid versions of public and private clouds might be the best solution.
2018-09-10
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College Degrees Shouldn't Be Required for Tech Jobs
Today we have a guest editorial from Kendra Little that talks about the requirements you may have for potential employees.
2018-09-07
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What is the best way to on-board (train) a new junior employee?
It is important to train new people, so what is the best way to go about doing it?
2018-09-06
367 reads
Back Yourself Up
Ever thought about yourself as a resource that should be backed up to minimize your loss?
2018-09-05
99 reads
I Feel Like a Magician
Something sufficiently complex, in our eyes, may appear to be magic. Steve Jones feels some of his knowledge about SQL Server looks the same way to others.
2018-09-04 (first published: 2015-07-06)
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2018-09-03
62 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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