Do You Talk Salary in the Interview?
This is a reprinted editorial from August 2, 2005. It is being republished as Steve is on vacation. Steve discusses the challenge of discussing salary in an interview.
2010-11-26
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Editorials
2010-11-25
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Windows Phone 7
Steve Jones has a pre-holiday look at the new Windows Phone 7 platform, with some thoughts on how it was designed.
2010-11-24
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Disaster Planning Includes You
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy discusses the need to consider personnel when you are planning for things to go wrong.
2010-11-23
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Decoupling the Database
Database refactoring is a difficult proposition at the best of times, but is rendered more or less impossible if the database is close-coupled to the application's other components. In a guest editorial, Mladen Prajdic stresses the importance of a native SQL Server abstraction layer.
2010-11-22
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Security by Obscurity
Today we have an editorial reprint from Aug 23, 2005 as Steve is on vacation. Does security through obscurity work? Steve Jones thinks it can help in a limited sense, providing another layer of protection.
2010-11-22
122 reads
Little Devices
This Friday Steve Jones asks if you think that your job could be done with smaller devices. Is there a chance that a mobile phone, a tablet or something else could help you be more productive?
2010-11-19
158 reads
The DBA Disconnect
It seems that there is a disconnect between how technical people view security and how business people see it. Steve Jones talks about the problems that we have in trying to secure the systems we manage.
2010-11-18
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Are You a Ten?
Are you truly an expert in SQL Server? Would you claim to be a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10? Steve Jones notes that the product is so wide and deep that it's unlikely any of us will be an expert in most of SQL Server, and that's OK.
2010-11-17
310 reads
Google Scale
Not many of us work at Google scale, where every little thing you do can matter. However Steve Jones thinks that the little things still matter when you are building software.
2010-11-16
231 reads
Blogs
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Identity Defaults
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Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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