Cascading Human Error
The recent Amazon AWS outage was blamed on human error. Steve Jones notes that the more interconnected our systems are, the more likely that a human error might cause cascades between the systems.
2011-05-03
283 reads
Editorials
100% Microsoft?
This week Brad McGehee asks if your company is a 100% Microsoft software shop or if you are allowed to use third party software with your SQL Server.
2011-05-02
206 reads
The Intelligence Cloud
More cloud talk today as the Air Force is building a new intelligence sharing system in the cloud? Why the cloud? Is the cloud really better?
2011-05-02
241 reads
Temporary Indexes
Temporary indexes can speed up processes that run periodically in your applications. This Friday Steve Jones asks how many of you use temporary indexes and how you do so.
2011-04-29
566 reads
When To Hire a DBA
When should you hire a DBA? Always, of course! Actually Steve Jones doesn't have an answer, but he does talk about why a DBA can help you.
2011-04-28
296 reads
Showing Its Age
Computer Systems are aging and as companies try to save money by extending their lifetimes, are we going to see more issues?
2011-04-27
174 reads
Less Pay, More Convenience
Steve Jones talks telecommuting today as a recent survey shows that a third of IT professionals would take less pay to work away from the office.
2011-04-26
205 reads
Cam-Graph
A new project from Microsoft Research has Steve Jones interested. It deals with large data sets to perform graphical modeling. The storage mechanism has Steve Jones interested.
2011-04-25
102 reads
Life is Short
Life is short, and Steve Jones reminds us to live for today, even as we invest in ourselves for the future.
2011-04-25
319 reads
Happy Easter 2011
It's Good Friday and the Easter holiday weekend with a number of countries having a bank holiday. Steve Jones is on vacation and providing us with a blooper reel for today.
2011-04-22
81 reads
Blogs
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)...
Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2024
By James Serra
Announced at Microsoft Ignite last week were some new product features related to the...
Forums
Primary and Secondary Filegroup
Hello, I am having database primary and secondary filegroup. Few tables/indexes are partitioned on...
Import data from json file with special characters
I am using the following script to import data from a json file. This...
% processor Time in Activity monitor is greyed out
When I connect to my SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) from...
Question of the Day
The Hash Join II
Which of these inputs is the smaller input to a hash join?
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