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The Challenges of Being Safe

Securing your data is a challenge. Steve Jones has a few comments no just how hard it can be to obfuscate your production data as you move it to development environments.

It Depends

It depends. The mantra of many DBAs and others in IT. Steve Jones reminds us why it applies.

Open Source is Not a Career Path

A reprint from the early days of SQLServerCentral as Steve is on vacation. Here is Steve Jones' Open Source Musings from February 3, 2005.

Moar Azure

Azure is adding capacity, in more ways than one.

Adding Extended Properties to Tables

Creating a New Sequence–#SQLNewBlogger

I wrote about sequences in an editorial recently and decided to start using them. Creating one turned out to be surprisingly easy. I had a table I’d been logging...

Daily Coping 19 Jun 2020

I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Evaluating Life at Work

It can be hard to evaluate your career and job situation, but Steve has some ideas today.

Social: Growing Up with the Dukes of Hazzard

I grew up in the South. The capital of the Confederacy was a short drive from my house. We studied the Civil War. I watched the Dukes on TV,...