Changing of the Guard
This Friday's poll looks at security and password changes. What interval do you think is appropriate and why? Steve Jones asks and gives you a few thoughts on his own experiences.
2009-08-28
709 reads
Editorial - MP3
Finding a Mentor
Someone asked Steve Jones about finding a mentor to become a better DBA. He shares some thoughts and advice about how to do this.
2009-08-27
890 reads
A True SQL OS
SQL Server is so large and complex that it's like an operating system. In fact, there the core engine is often referred to as the "SQL OS" by Microsoft developers. Steve Jones would like to see SQL Server as it's own OS at some point.
2009-08-26
787 reads
Overselling Yourself
Posting online is a way of building your own brand, but you need to be careful of overselling yourself. Steve Jones talks about being careful in the impressions you create from your online presence.
2009-08-25
900 reads
Two Factor Authentication
SQL Server doesn't support two factor authentication, but Steve Jones thinks it might be a good idea. Perhaps it's something that will get implemented in the next version, and might even serve to better secure the platform.
2009-08-24
743 reads
Protection Close To Home
For the Friday Poll this week, Steve Jones is wondering what type of data protection you use at home for your information. Especially those all important family photos.
2009-08-21
1,137 reads
Test Drive
Hiring a new employee can be a hit or miss proposition. We often don't learn much about how someone will work from an interview. Steve Jones talks about an alternative way to hire someone by taking them for a test drive.
2009-08-19
502 reads
Why Should You Network?
Networking is one of those things that so many people say is good for your career? But why? Steve Jones has a few examples today from his own experience.
2009-08-17
657 reads
Choosing a FillFactor
Sharing how you do your job can help others be better at theirs. This Friday's poll asks a technical question. How do you determine which fillfactor to use.
2009-08-14
736 reads
Sin City SQL
Join Steve Jones and a few of the SQLServerCentral community in Las Vegas this fall at the SQL Connections conference.
2009-08-13
610 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Purview GA menu’s
By James Serra
The new data governance features in Microsoft Purview are now being made generally available...
Connect to Power BI as a Guest User in another Tenant
Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added...
Parsing EXE Output in PowerShell
By Steve Jones
I saw a post internally that asked this question: Anyone have a handy powershell...
Forums
GIT Configuration and Automated Release for Azure Data Factory
Comments posted to this topic are about the item GIT Configuration and Automated Release...
Case or LOOKUP Table on Common but simplistic values
NOTE: I get that this may be too broad a question to answer and...
Azure SQL Managed Instance: RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally. (Micro
I'm trying to restore my database into Azure SQL Managed instance from blob storage...
Question of the Day
Concat Addition
What is the result of this code?
SELECT CONCAT(1, 2, 3) + 4See possible answers