The Future of Bits
Feel like making a prediction this Friday? Steve Jones looks to the future with information workers and a knowledge economy. Answer this Friday poll and give us your guess about the future.
2009-10-16
95 reads
Editorials
Afraid of Help
Is it hard for technology workers to ask for help? Or accept it? We seem to often be the type of people that want to solve problems and fix things on our own. Is that a problem? Steve Jones thinks that we should sometimes put aside our pride and get things done.
2009-10-15
80 reads
Great DBA’s in History
What great historical figures would make great DBAs? A guest editorial from Grant Fritchey examines the traits and characteristics we look for in this role and which famous people we might choose and why.
2009-10-14
525 reads
Working at Microsoft
Would you want to work at Microsoft? Do you think Steve Jones does? Read a few thoughts from him on his experience with the software giant.
2009-10-13
165 reads
Manager of One
Are you a manager of one? Steve Jones say show this might be a good thing to be. You might improve your chances of landing the next job by showing your employer that you can be more productive.
2009-10-12
102 reads
Investing In Your Career
Do you invest in your own career? Should you? Steve Jones asks the question in today's Friday poll.
2009-10-09
199 reads
Are you looking to Hadoop?
Hadoop is an interesting new software project in the Linux world that deals with large data sets. Steve Jones wonders if anyone in the SQL Server world has started working with it.
2009-10-08
1,345 reads
Is Your Server Vendor Providing the Quality, Innovation, and Support You Need?
We should get help from vendors, as well as support, but what about innovation? Today's guest editorial from Brad McGeHee asks if the third party tool vendors for SQL Server are doing enough to provide value for the cost of their tools.
2009-10-06
56 reads
DBAs and the Fear of Maintenance Plans
The Maintenance Plan wizard offers a quick and simple route to make sure essential database maintenance tasks are performed and scheduled. However, it needs to be used with a lot of care, and is no substitute for the judgment, experience and common sense of a flesh and blood DBA.
2009-10-05
376 reads
The Incidental DBA
There are lots of technical people that are forced to be DBAs by necessity. However there is another class of DBAs, the Incidental DBAs. Andy Warren brings a guest editorial that reminds us about this group of people that work with SQL Server.
2009-10-02
181 reads
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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