The Busman's Holiday
It's a holiday weekend, but for some DBA's it's hard to escape the unwanted clutches of IT...
2009-07-06
79 reads
Editorial
The Independence Day Ruckus
Steve is away this Fourth of July, so we asked Brian Donahue, head of the Red Gate product support team, and an American "exiled" in the UK, to reflect on what Independence Day means to him.
2009-07-03
70 reads
Stress
Developers and DBAs both tend to lead stressful lives. Occasionally, things don't go to plan, and this stress can then build to pretty intolerable levels. Without adaptive methods of dealing with stress, things can go very wrong...
2009-07-02
277 reads
What is the Best Way to Test SQL?
Over the past five or so years, encouraging progress has been made with regard to testing .NET application code...I wish I could say that the same progress had been made with testing SQL.
2009-07-01
550 reads
Documenting Database Code: Structured Headers
When you're doing any database development work, it won't be long before you need to seriously consider the documentation of your routines. Should we, as a community, propose a common standard for T-SQL headers, and the information that should go into them?
2009-06-30
485 reads
Disaster Recovery - An Afterthought?
Disaster Recovery is always ranked by DBAs and managers as one of the most important things to have set up. Yet many people working with databases don't spend time on this. Steve Jones has a few comments from the news this week.
2009-06-29
424 reads
What's Your Ideal DBA Job?
Brad engages in a little Summer daydreaming, and wonders what the Ideal DBA job would look like...
2009-06-29
357 reads
Making Demands
Imagine you are invited to speak somewhere and you have a bit of power. Have some fun with this Friday's poll and let us know what you'd demand.
2009-06-26
444 reads
Making Demands
Imagine you are invited to speak somewhere and you have a bit of power. Have some fun with this Friday's poll and let us know what you'd demand.
2009-06-26
117 reads
Trusting Online
How do you earn trust online? How do you decide who to trust? Steve Jones comments a bit about this this works in the digital world.
2009-06-25
101 reads
Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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Backup to Immutable Storage
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