A Double Day

I’m traveling back from Australia today. A few weeks ago I lost a day when I flew West across the Pacific. Today I get it back, with a different...

High Security Prices–Always Encrypted 2019 needs Datacenter Edition

I was recently doing some work on Always Encrypted in SQL Server 2019 and needed to set up an HGS server. I went through most of the setup, and...

VMs are not VMs

Today Steve Jones talks about how database VMs are not like other VMs.

No More Denial

Are We Suckers?

This week Steve Jones wonders if we work too much. Do we give more to our employers than they give to us?

Floating Storage

Getting Wait Stats

Building or Buying Analytics

One of the decisions that I've been involved with at the beginning of every software project is whether to buy software to solve the problem or build our own. This might be a quick "is there software anyone knows about to do this?" query, or an in-depth review of the marketplace or something in between. […]

Microsoft Exercise

We have got a deal for you, Microsoft is concerned about the health of your company and is doing something about it.

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