Versioning Over Time
How do you handle the tracking of changes across time in a database? Not auditing, but the actual structural and schema changes. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with rapidly changing versions.
2008-12-11
352 reads
Editorial
Alone Time
Working in a distributed team can be challenging, but working in an office can be just as difficult. Steve Jones talks a bit about time management today.
2008-12-10
171 reads
The Need for Auditing
Is C2 auditing widely used? Should it be more widely used? Steve Jones talks about the subject of auditing in today's editorial.
2014-09-16 (first published: 2008-12-08)
664 reads
Getting Close to Physical - Database Weekly (Nov 8, 2008)
The performance of virtual machines is getting closer and closer to that of physical machines with better software like Hyper-V.
2008-12-08
242 reads
Data Vices
Steve Jones asks about what you might change about yourself at work for this Friday's poll.
2014-09-12 (first published: 2008-12-05)
159 reads
Just Keep Going and Going and Going
The upgrade treadmill might hit you in ways that you didn't expect.
2008-12-04
133 reads
The Energizer Bunny
Energizer, one of the world's leading battery manufacturers, is looking to have Microsoft host much of their infrastructure.
2008-12-03
121 reads
2008-12-02
196 reads
The Wild Fringes of SQL Server Development
We can now clearly see two opposing trends in the way SQL Server is being used in applications. The dumb database brigade regards SQL Server as simply a 'data dump'. The 'database fanatics' think SQL Server on its own can meet the needs of all but the most demanding applications. Can these opposing trends be reconciled? Tony Davis would like to think so.
2008-12-01
225 reads
The Full Potential of SQL 2000
Attending a conference and hearing about all the latest and greatest new features is a bit like spending holiday sampling exotic seafood and imbibing strange new cocktails. When you return, you're decidedly in the mood for a pie and a pint of beer.
2008-12-01
347 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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