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.
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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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There’s a lot of competition among database platform vendors. Once a platform is chosen, companies rarely change, and with good reason. The cost of the people building your application accounts for most of the resources you expend on a database system. Re-training, or replacing, is often ...
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Someone suggested Newsblur to me, and I went to their home page. Like many sites, it asks you to sign up, so I decided to give it a try. The import from Google Reader caught my attention, so I clicked it. It asked for an authorization from Google, and then I got this page: I […]
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I really like the idea of Azure providing a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for applications to be built on. As I’ve evolved in my career, I’ve learned I prefer not to manage individual machines or deal with the complexities of configuring anything outside of SSMS for SQL Server. Working ...
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It’s T-SQL Tuesday time, this month hosted by Wendy Pastrick who asks you to talk about the Long and Winding Road. Wendy asks us to talk about your job, your road map to the future, and what might be in store for you. T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party on the second Tuesday of […]
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