This Friday Steve Jones has a poll about which SQL Servers might impress you. Is there a company or installation that you think would really showcase the power and scalability of SQL Server?
2015-12-25 (first published: 2011-05-06)
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The outage at Amazon's Web Services recently affected a lot of different companies. However not everyone was affected. The reach of the cloud and the competition for attention means that while we have to learn to expect failures, they are not necessarily evenly distributed.
2011-05-05
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Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. We still have many applications runnning under sysadmin accounts, often "sa". Why do people do this? Andy has a few thoughts on the subject.
2015-12-21 (first published: 2011-05-04)
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The recent Amazon AWS outage was blamed on human error. Steve Jones notes that the more interconnected our systems are, the more likely that a human error might cause cascades between the systems.
2011-05-03
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This week Brad McGehee asks if your company is a 100% Microsoft software shop or if you are allowed to use third party software with your SQL Server.
2011-05-02
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More cloud talk today as the Air Force is building a new intelligence sharing system in the cloud? Why the cloud? Is the cloud really better?
2011-05-02
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Temporary indexes can speed up processes that run periodically in your applications. This Friday Steve Jones asks how many of you use temporary indexes and how you do so.
2011-04-29
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When should you hire a DBA? Always, of course! Actually Steve Jones doesn't have an answer, but he does talk about why a DBA can help you.
2011-04-28
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Computer Systems are aging and as companies try to save money by extending their lifetimes, are we going to see more issues?
2011-04-27
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Steve Jones talks telecommuting today as a recent survey shows that a third of IT professionals would take less pay to work away from the office.
2011-04-26
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