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
183 reads
Editorials
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
328 reads
DBA Concerns
A survey of Oracle DBAs shows them having a number of security concerns. Steve Jones thinks that a survey of SQL Server DBAs would be similar.
2011-03-10
282 reads
Quality Over Timing
Is quality job one for software companies? Steve Jones asks what you think and comments on why quality might not be as high as we would like.
2011-03-09
167 reads
Avoiding Logging
It seems that some people think that you can perform actions in SQL Server without logging them in the transaction log. Steve Jones talks about this myth and says it's not even an option he'd like to have.
2011-03-08
637 reads
Is Microsoft neglecting SMO?
Phil Fator, the self-confessed wild man of T-SQL, finally comes clean: he's a secret PowerShell user. But for the DBA, what is PowerShell without SMO? Is Microsoft giving the latter the care and attention it needs?
2011-03-07
506 reads
The Wisdom Department
Steve Jones talks about the way business ought to run, with more long term goals and objectives taking precedence over short term revenue. One idea that might help us is having a wisdom department that looks forward and tries to grow the business for the long term.
2011-03-07
405 reads
SLA Contracts
This Friday Steve Jones talks about the commitments and contracts that you may have with your customers. Do you know what they are? Is the contract explicitly spelled out? Take this Friday's poll and share your answer with everyone else.
2011-03-04
583 reads
Slow Fixes
Today we have an editorial reprinted from Jan 15, 2006 as Steve is on vacation. This one talks about the patching process at Microsoft, and why it sometimes is slower than we might like.
2011-03-03
377 reads
Bad IT People
What happens when you have bad IT people working in your company? Steve Jones says that they always will be around, but we might not want to enable them to continue in this business when we find them.
2011-03-02
2,138 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
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Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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