Today Steve Jones reminds us that talent and technical skills are not necessarily enough to advance your career and that you ought to remember to work on other types of skills that you may want to improve.
2010-12-15
208 reads
Today Steve Jones talks about those products we consider "low-end." Products like Access or VB. Are they a problem for us?
2010-12-14
170 reads
Things have evolved since the days of essential pagers and landline connections. Or have they? Brad ponders how the nature of remote working is evolving, and invites you help others learn from your experiences.
2010-12-13
155 reads
A contest from Red Gate and Steve Jones could get you a copy of SQL Monitor and an iPad for Christmas. Steve Jones talks about how you can enter, and perhaps win an iPad for yourself this holiday season.
2010-12-13
1,757 reads
One piece of advice that is often given to new SQL Server administrators is not to shrink their databases. But they seem to do it often enough anyway. For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks if we should do away with shrink.
2010-12-10
964 reads
Microsoft is working to certify vendors to build private clouds, which Steve Jones thinks is a great idea.
2010-12-09
167 reads
Can you accurately determine the cost or benefit of a new, cool project up front? Steve Jones thinks not, but coming up with new projects can be a way to set yourself apart from others.
2010-12-08
106 reads
Steve Jones found a very fascinating way that might keep elections more secure, verifiable, and also more open.
2010-12-07
95 reads
If SSDs are about to make obsolete one of the major driving forces behind the development of SANs (disk latency) then how is the storage array going to change in the near future?
2010-12-06
496 reads
We are always looking for more speed from our computer systems, but are they getting faster? Steve Jones has a few comments on why this might not be the case.
2010-12-06
154 reads
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or...
By Steve Jones
One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume)...
By James Serra
Announced at Microsoft Ignite last week were some new product features related to the...
I am using the following script to import data from a json file. This...
When I connect to my SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) from...
Hi all! I’ve been using MySQLCalculator.com for memory calculations, but I’m looking for alternatives...
Which of these inputs is the smaller input to a hash join?
See possible answers