A Worthwhile Goal
Steve Jones talks about two competing priorities for many people that start at a new job and asks which one you value more in this Friday poll.
2008-05-15
42 reads
Editorial - WMV
2008-05-14
40 reads
Encrypting Data
Encrypting data is the easy part of dealing with encryption and databases. Steve Jones talks about some of the other, more difficult, issues you must handle.
2008-05-13
41 reads
The CLR
The CLR was one of the highly touted additions to SQL Server 2005, and one of the reasons for its long development cycle. Steve Jones comments on why it hasn't been that widely used.
2008-05-12
34 reads
Boycott
Steve Jones asks for some opinions on how to approach the new timeframe of software releases.
2008-05-11
36 reads
2008-05-08
32 reads
Planes, Trains, and Cows?
New technologies often bring with them lots of new data. Steve Jones talks about some changes that we might see with new RFID technology being deployed in some industries.
2008-05-07
38 reads
Recognizing Talent
Microsoft made a sizeable big for Yahoo and Steve Jones talks about one of the more interesting aspects of that bid that didn't receive much press.
2008-05-06
31 reads
Getting Organized
As DBAs we should be very detail oriented, but Steve Jones talks about some challenges with keeping up with your tasks and projects and some software that might help.
2008-05-05
30 reads
The Shortage of Programmers
Steve Jones thinks that programmers should be able to negotiate any deal they can and Joel Spolsky has no reason to be upset.
2008-05-04
39 reads
Blogs
Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting
By Steve Jones
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T-SQL Tuesday #180: Avoid Perfect for Good Enough
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Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng
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