The Second Career
From a well-built cockney who knew how to avoid wheel clamps, to an ex-member of an elite anti-riot unit, some of the best DBAs have a surprising diversity of skills and experiences, according to Phil Factor.
2017-02-13
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Editorial
Moving Through Five Years
An updated editorial. The five years are almost up for the prediction that IT departments would be eliminated. Read Steve Jones thoughts on where we are today.
2017-02-10
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Why Devops? For Better Security
DevOps is supposed to help us build better software, faster. Steve Jones looks at one of the other benefits: security.
2017-02-09
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2017-02-08
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Would You Still Love Linux If Windows Was Free?
A guest editorial today looks at the OS debate: Windows v Linux.
2022-03-07 (first published: 2017-02-07)
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A View of the Cloud
Today Steve Jones looks at how we can better build software by considering the cloud.
2017-02-06
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Close Encounters of the CEIP Kind
Microsoft's Customer Experience Improvement Program for SQL Server: once easy to avoid, now hard to ignore, but Rodney Landrum sees an upside.
2017-02-06
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Your Favorite Feature that Needs Work
This week Steve Jones asks what parts of SQL Server would you improve and why.
2017-02-03
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The Great and Powerful Internet of Things
A look at the good, and bad, of the IoT world along with the potential future.
2017-02-02
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A Wide Variation in Skill
We all have different levels of skills, and it's not always because we don't try. Sometimes it's a question of timing.
2017-01-31
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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,...
Forums
Which 'Where' statement conditional upon a variable
Thanks in advance for any clues on this. I am trying to write a...
Backup to Immutable Storage
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Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Backup to Immutable Storage
In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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