The More Things Change ...
Steve Jones talks about how IT hasn't changed very much over the years and how your career might not be that different in ten years.
2008-07-28
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Editorials
Service Accounts
A Friday poll from Steve Jones looks at service accounts and how you deal with passwords.
2008-07-25
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Virtual Conversions
Virtualization is becoming more and more popular, being implemented in many companies every day to replace the need to add more physical boxes to your data center. Steve Jones comments on some of the handy features of virtualization.
2008-07-24
222 reads
Knock, Knock...What's Funny?
Humor in the workplace is essential for a good environment, but employees need to be careful about what they might consider sharing.
2008-07-23
236 reads
Going Naked
Steve Jones talks about the value of software maintenance and how you should view their value.
2008-07-21
88 reads
The Database Weekly Update for July 21, 2008
In this update from the past week Steve Jones looks at leaks in encrypted disks and Web 2.0 development.
2008-07-21
49 reads
Soft Skills
A guest Friday poll from Adam Angelini, DBA and member of the band Wakamojo, which was featured on some editorial podcasts. This week Adam wonders about soft skills for DBAs.
2008-07-18
386 reads
Pulling Together
When a co-worker is ill, what should the rest of the office do? How do you handle absences that might extend for weeks or months. Steve Jones comments on the responsibilities of the team.
2008-07-17
90 reads
Untouched Data
How much data do you have that's never accessed. Apparently most of it on a network is just stored and never re-examined. Steve Jones comments on a few statistics.
2008-07-16
143 reads
A Good Case For Reference
Steve Jones is looking for some interesting application ideas using SQL Server that can help teach people how to take advantage of features.
2008-07-15
268 reads
Blogs
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
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...
Forums
Can someone please explain what happens?
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects:...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers