A new series about kicking bad habits reminds Steve Jones that there are good and bad sides to having set practices. Even the best habits you have in technology will likely need to evolve over time.
2014-06-13 (first published: 2009-10-12)
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Do you invest in your own career? Should you? Steve Jones asks the question in today's Friday poll.
2009-10-09
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Hadoop is an interesting new software project in the Linux world that deals with large data sets. Steve Jones wonders if anyone in the SQL Server world has started working with it.
2009-10-08
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It's easy to get excited if you work at a startup, or a software company. But for corporate workers that toil in IT departments all around the world, how do you keep them motivated? Steve Jones has a few thoughts about simple things that make workers feel better about their jobs.
2014-06-06 (first published: 2009-10-07)
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We should get help from vendors, as well as support, but what about innovation? Today's guest editorial from Brad McGeHee asks if the third party tool vendors for SQL Server are doing enough to provide value for the cost of their tools.
2009-10-06
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Providing support for your manager or boss in getting his or her job is a good thing. Steve Jones comments on what benefits you might get and why this could enhance your career.
2014-06-20 (first published: 2009-10-05)
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The Maintenance Plan wizard offers a quick and simple route to make sure essential database maintenance tasks are performed and scheduled. However, it needs to be used with a lot of care, and is no substitute for the judgment, experience and common sense of a flesh and blood DBA.
2009-10-05
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There are lots of technical people that are forced to be DBAs by necessity. However there is another class of DBAs, the Incidental DBAs. Andy Warren brings a guest editorial that reminds us about this group of people that work with SQL Server.
2009-10-02
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The English voice of IT reason, Phil Factor, brings us a guest editorial. Today he waxes about the overbearing processes used to build internal corporate applications.
2009-10-01
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Steve Jones is a part of Generation X, who surprisingly seems to be more Web 2.0 oriented than Generation Y.
2009-09-30
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By Brian Kelley
If a technology is still viable, don’t overlook it. Don’t get caught up chasing...
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It’s time for the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. This month a longtime friend,...
By Steve Jones
I got a message a few months back that Microsoft was deprecating the MySQL...
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