The Business - Part 2
Today we have a guest editorial by Andy Warren. This one continues the thought of how you relate to the rest of your company, or "the business" as is it often known.
2011-03-22
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Editorials
If you could stop working tomorrow, would you still do SQL?
Rodney landrum wonders what, if anything, you would do in SQL, or any other beloved technology, if you did not have to?
2011-03-21
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Test Before Deciding
How do you decide what improvements to make to your SQL Server? Or what settings to turn off? Having hard and fast rules isn't a great idea, and Steve Jones talks about why.
2011-03-21
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Looking at SOX
This Friday Steve Jones asks what impact the Sarbanes-Oxley act has had on your job. After nearly a decade since the act was passed, is it intrusive in the workplace or just another part of your job.
2011-03-18
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Implicit and Explicit Conversions
Code that depends on implicit conversions can live for years in production without issue. However Steve Jones says that you shouldn't depend on these conversions
2011-03-17
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The Business
How is your IT relationship with "the business"? Andy Warren asks today if there is a real client relationship between the implementers of technology and the consumers.
2011-03-16
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A SQL Conference In The Sun
SQL Connections, part of Dev Connections, is coming in a few weeks. Now is the time to register and get the chance to learn in a sunny location.
2011-03-15
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NoSQL is Not the Answer
NoSQL solves some problems in the database world, but not all of them. It's also not an evolution of the relational database, but as Steve Jones notes, it has some features we might see in SQL Server.
2011-03-14
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Serialising tabular and relational data.
Guest editorial by Phil who bemoans the difficulty of transferring tabular data by file between differing databases, spreadsheets and analysis tools.
2011-03-14
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Max Memory
This Friday Steve Jones asks for who's got the best bragging rights. Let us know this Friday just much RAM is a lot.
2011-03-11
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
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Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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