Steve Jones
Steve Jones is currently the editor of SQLServerCentral, employed by Red Gate Software. Steve has been working with SQL Server for two decades at a variety of large and small companies. Steve has spent time as a hiring manager as well as a technical DBA, easily moving back and forth between these positions at different employers. He has managed Windows networks, functioned as a production DBA, development DBA, software developer, and DBA manager. His work has included start-up as well as Fortune 1000 companies in the power, financial, education, and software industries. He currently has his dream job managing the largest SQL Server community on the Internet from his ranch in Colorado and writes a daily editorial at SQLServerCentral.
Sooner or later some sort of disaster occur on your SQL Server instance. It might be the destruction of a server, the corruption of a page inside the database, or just the unexpected deletion of some data. When disaster does strike, will you be prepa
A look at binary data in SQL Server and full-text searching of the content of binary files.
Blog posts
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Microsoft is trying to change from a software vendor to a devices and services company? They are trying, according to this piece from Mary Jo Foley. With a Developer and Platform Evangelism group that is trying to bridge the gap between internal Microsoft developers and those external ...
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I ran across someone that was building a restore script to automated their restores. This person wanted their script to work with any instance, and that means they’d need to find the path for the database files, if the database already existed. It was interesting to me, and I decided to give a ...
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I know it’s not schizophrenic, but that sounds better. It’s really a split personality. I wrote recently about Windows 8 and what I consider to be poor design in the update system. Today I want to look at another aspect that troubles me. Programs I’ve gotten used to the taskbar and finding the ...
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I was reading about version control systems (VCS) recently, brushing up on some skills, and saw this quote in a thread: “There is no excuse for not using version control, even for a small project developed by single developer. Setting up local version control is beyond trivial, benefits huge. ...
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As we become more and more security conscious, it becomes more important not only to configure systems for better security, but also to add more monitoring and auditing to detect when problems occur. We know that at some point someone will attempt to hack our systems. Many of us have auditing set ...
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