Internal Staff Growth
How do you approach adding to your team? Steve asks if you look internally or externally as a default.
2025-11-12
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Hiring
Hiring in IT and Relevance of Domain Experience
When choosing to hire someone, do you want experience or freshness? A few thoughts from someone that had to go through this recently.
2024-08-12
1,417 reads
Keeping Your Staff
Retaining staff is always a challenge for many organizations. Today Steve talks about the difficulties of doing so and in choosing who to retain.
2020-09-29
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How to Hire a Junior DBA
Brent Ozar covers some questions you need to ask yourself before hiring a Junior DBA.
2017-10-26
4,154 reads
Simple Talk is hiring a full-time editor
Have experience editing and writing technical content? Redgate is currently hiring for their educational publishing site, Simple Talk. They're open to accepting remote workers, so if you're interested, there's no excuse not to go ahead and apply!
2017-08-01 (first published: 2017-07-28)
4,722 reads
Blogs
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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