Data Ownership
Sometimes determining who owns the data or information isn't that easy. Steve Jones has an example from the US election in 2008.
2008-10-20
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Editorial - WMV
Enough - Database Weekly (Oct. 20, 2008)
The loss of data is getting ridiculous. Steve Jones wants companies and government to do something about it.
2008-10-18
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The Financial Crisis
With the economy slowing the the world facing a financial crisis, Steve Jones polls the man on the street this Friday.
2008-10-16
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Moving to the Heartland
With companies like Microsoft and Google building data centers in small towns, Steve Jones has some comments about how this might affect IT jobs.
2008-10-15
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Too Good at Data Analysis
Can you be too good at analyzing data? An interesting story from the financial markets.
2008-10-13
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Data Farming
Another spy story involving data that's not true, and perhaps not plausible, but it makes Steve Jones think about data shadows.
2008-10-11
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Climb Another Mountain - Database Weekly (Oct 13, 2008)
The next version of SQL Server has a codename. Or does it? Steve Jones talks about some announcements in the SQL Server world this past week.
2008-10-11
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Database Health
What's in a database health report? Steve Jones asks what you might want to put in one for this Friday's poll.
2008-10-09
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Project Management Management
The state of project management for technology projects doesn't seem to be keeping up with technology itself. Steve Jones talks a little about what might be wrong.
2008-10-08
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Take the Plunge
Today Steve Jones talks about starting your own business and should you do it with online tools.
2008-10-07
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
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I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
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continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
A Wellbeing Day at Redgate
By Steve Jones
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers