Use Your Tools
It's easy to get stuck in a rut and not learn to use the new features and capabilities of your tools are they evolve. Steve Jones reminds you it's worth a little time investment to learn about your tools.
2012-02-15
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Editorials
A Valentine for the Community
This Valentine's Day Steve Jones wants to thank everyone in the community for their efforts.
2012-02-14
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Anonymous Research
Anonymizing data is hard, and Steve Jones talks about some of the problems with trying. Is this something we should be more concerned about this with our corporate data?
2012-02-13
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Upgrading Your Career
Certification is on Steve Jones' mind this week after quite a few training opportunities have popped up lately.
2012-02-13
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Encryption in Production
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know if you are using encryption in your production system and if so, how is it working? Can you handle DR situations?
2012-02-10
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API Changes
Steve Jones comments on predictions that we will see new types of APIs coming in the future, especially data APIs.
2012-02-09
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Going Solo
This editorial was originally published on Mar 20, 2007. It is being republished as Steve Jones is on vacation. Today Steve Jones talks about going into business for yourself, and reminding you it's not as simple as it might seem.
2012-02-08
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Feedback and Big Data
Continuous improvement comes from measurement, analysis, and changes. Steve Jones talks about how we should be doing that with our data collection, analysis, and storage.
2012-02-07
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Insider Security Threats
The biggest security threat always seems to come from insiders and today Steve Jones talks about the need to monitor your environment.
2012-02-06
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SQL Server 2012: Creative Thinking for a Creative New Licensing Model
It seems inevitable that many customers will end up paying more to get the same features they have today, under the new SQL Server licencing model, unless they respond to Microsoft's creativity with some of their own.
2012-02-06
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Blogs
A New Word: Nachlophobia
By Steve Jones
nachlophobia – n. the fear that your deepest connections with people are ultimately pretty...
Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or...
Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
By Steve Jones
One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume)...
Forums
Lies You Should Believe - Anything is possible
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A Strange Query
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Primary and Secondary Filegroup
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A Strange Query
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