Who's Got Your Data?
The state of data security might get worse in the future as more companies gather and share more data.
Comparing Data Warehouse Design Methodologies for Microsoft SQL Server
In this article, Arshad Ali goes intp detail about how a data warehouse is different from operational data store and the different design methodologies for a data warehouse.
Change the Maintenance Plan Owner
This article shows how you can change the maintenance plan owner in SQL SERVER
The Intrusion of Life
Life intrudes on work at times, and we must learn to balance the limited time we have. However we also need to remember that we work to live, not live to work.
Performance Tuning in the Age of Big Data
Database Administrators must now deal with large volumes of data and new forms of high-speed data analysis. If your responsibility includes performance tuning, here are the areas to focus on that will become more and more important in the age of Big Data.
SQL Saturday #214 Louisville KY
Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking in Louisville Kentucky on July 13.
This SQL Saturday event also has 2 paid pre-con all day sessions on July 12 presented by Dave Fackler and Bill Pearson.
Achieve Better Performance
This week Steve Jones talks performance and a few things you might want to do that can help your career and employer.
Give
The world is bigger than you, and when you help others, you realize that. Making that change might also make you happier, and more successful, in your career.
Log Shipping Lite with PowerShell
A PowerShell driver that performs incremental restores on a standby server, a lite weight log shipping solution.
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
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locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers