The Ebb and Flow of Community
Phil Factor talks a bit about the SQLServerCentral community and how we all get something different from it.
2008-11-28
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Editorial
2008-11-27
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2008-11-26
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Budgeting
A bit of a rant today from Steve Jones after running into a situation that seems to make no sense these days.
2008-11-25
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Undocumented Routines: Forbidden fruit.
Phil wonders whether it is time to come up with clear 'best practice' guidelines to cover the use of undocumented routines, and ends up deciding it is a gray area.
2008-11-24
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Mini-Me
This Friday Steve Jones asks if you build your own mini-me's to help you manage your database systems.
2014-03-07 (first published: 2008-11-21)
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E-Discovery and Data Retention
While most DBAs might never encounter the legal aspects of their professional, Phil Factor brings to light a few things that you might want to be aware of in these litigious times.
2008-11-20
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Trust But Verify
As data professionals we need to be sure that we can present back the data we receive. Perhaps other people should embrace this mantra in other lines of work.
2008-11-19
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Go Open
Is Open Source something you should examine with the economy diving down? Steve Jones talks about a few of the issues.
2008-11-18
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Ethics in IT - Database Weekly (Nov 17, 2008)
Employers say they're looking for more ethics and morals in IT for 2009. Steve Jones hopes it's true.
2008-11-17
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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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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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