The Industry Problem
We have less people studying technical subjects and an apparent shortage of technical talent in the IT field. Steve Jones thinks we might have an industry wide problem.
2011-11-14
228 reads
Editorials
First Impressions
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that examines the first impressions that you create when you meet someone.
2011-11-11
126 reads
License By Core
Microsoft recently announced changes in the licensing for SQL Server 2012 and Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the topic.
2011-11-09
296 reads
Real Time Dangers
Steve Jones notes that our expert systems might not handle every situation well, and the quest to move towards more real time decision making can involve dangers if a human is not in the loop.
2011-11-08
136 reads
Going Green in Software Development
Today Steve Jones talks about the impact of better software programming on the energy use in your company's data center.
2011-11-07
98 reads
Never offend a captive audience
Write what you choose to when the reader can, in turn, choose not to read your work; but when you are writing about Technology, you have a captive audience. They need to read your work to keep abreast of the technology. Don't gratuitously offend them. It is not the action of a gentleman, D____it!
2011-11-07
119 reads
ETL
Today we have an editorial that was originally published on Aug 31, 2006 as Steve is traveling at DevConnections. It still seems relevant, so answer the poll this week.
2011-11-04
211 reads
Laptop Boy Scouts
This editorial was originally published on Jan 10, 2007. Steve is at DevConnections, so it is being republished. This piece talks about laptop security when you are working in a public place.
2011-11-03
91 reads
Password Help
Today we have an editorial that was originally published on Oct 9, 2006. Steve Jones talks about the issues of turnover, passwords, and security.
2011-11-02
115 reads
Doubly Wrong
Today we have an editorial that was originally published on Nov 7, 2006 as Steve is at DevConnections. This one talks about SPAM and security.
2011-11-01
75 reads
Blogs
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
Forums
A Quick Restore
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Question of the Day
A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers