Database Weekly - May 5, 2008
A look back at the news of the past week dealing with SQL Injection, slow SQL Server growth and two level security.
2008-05-05
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Editorials
Managing Disk Space
How often do you worry about your database size and free space? Steve Jones asks how you administer your SQL Server database space this Friday.
2008-05-02
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And You Thought You Had a Big Database
Steve Jones examines what big is these days and a few examples of what the largest database people in the world deal with.
2008-05-01
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Should I Buy a Kindle?
Steve Jones still thinks there is a lot of value in books, both fiction and non-fiction, but he's looking at e-Readers, specifically the Kindle from Amazon.
2008-04-30
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All Data Readers Are Evil
The DBA's Mantra: All data readers are evil. Steve Jones talks about a proposed corollary that might be appropriate to ensure security.
2008-04-29
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Easy or Hard
How should we build tools? Should they be easy to use? Or does it make sense to have some things hard to do so that only experienced used choose them. Steve Jones comments on usability and the implications of your choices.
2008-04-28
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The Exceptional DBA: Soft Skills
If impeccable technical skills are a "given", what are the soft shills that will make you an Exceptional DBA rather than a competent DBA?
2008-04-28
1,428 reads
Seeing Double
SQL Server allows some interesting index behavior and there's been some debate over whether it makes sense or not. This Friday Steve Jones asks if you have a reason for this.
2008-04-25
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2008-04-24
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The April Energy Update
The bimonthly update on energy news from Steve Jones, focusing mostly this month on wind power.
2008-04-23
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Blogs
Data Masking with Azure Databricks
By Rayis Imayev
“Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?The...
Grinding Away: Mary Spender
By Steve Jones
A few years ago I stumbled on this video and loved it. That led...
PASS Summit 2024 – A new experience
I attended the PASS Data Community Summit held in Seattle in person this year...
Forums
How do I fix the, "Unable to process the existing user settings" error message?
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Cannot restore new DB
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How to Avoid Incorrect Results When Using T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
The AG Secondary Logs
What happens when an AG secondary receives a log record from the primary?
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