Mining for Experts
How do you determine who is an expert in a field? Or if they are willing to answer questions for others? A new system that should do just that intrigues Steve Jones.
2009-05-04
135 reads
Editorials
The Next Frontier of Performance Troubleshooting
The number of tools for troubleshooting SQL Server performance problems has recently expanded at a dizzying rate. Is the latest one any reason to get excited?
2009-05-04
576 reads
Physical File Defragmentation
A guest editorial by Brad McGehee talks about physical fragmentation and asks if you are concerned about it on your servers.
2009-05-01
544 reads
Mistakes in April
Steve Jones has a blooper reel for today that shows some of the things that happen when shooting a daily podcast.
2009-04-30
120 reads
Secure Storage
How do you keep the passwords and keys for encrypted data safe? Steve Jones comments on the challenges of working with keys and passwords.
2009-04-29
108 reads
The Best High Availability
Clustering is often the first choice for high availability, but is it the best choice? A lot of people think so, but Steve Jones has other thoughts.
2009-04-28
711 reads
All-Access
A licensing scheme from Embarcadero catches Steve Jones' eye. He comments on a great way for the company to work with customers.
2009-04-27
102 reads
Ethics and Leaders - Database Weekly (Apr 27, 2009)
This week Steve Jones discusses ethics and leadership in IT.
2009-04-27
107 reads
Manage Your Career
The person responsible for your career is you. Steve Jones gives you a few thoughts on how you might approach your career.
2009-04-22
422 reads
Take Advantage of Hard Times
With the economy in a downturn, Steve Jones talks about what you might want to do to be pro-active with your projects.
2009-04-21
103 reads
Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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