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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.
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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

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The Tally Table and Expanding Rows 22 May 2012
Suppose you had some data like this: Class           Limit ————— ———– Calculus        5 History         4 ...

The TCO of the Cloud 22 May 2012
I know that many of you don’t want to put your databases in the cloud. There are definitely concerns for many applications that might have identity, financial, medical, or other data. However there are many other types of applications that might make sense for cloud computing, and I am sure ...

From the Labs of SQL Prompt 21 May 2012
I love SQL Prompt as an add-in for SSMS. The intellisense is very handy for me and I’ve gotten used to certain shortcut combinations that make it easy for me to write T-SQL quickly and get information on parameters without opening Books Online. It’s works better than the native intellisense for me, ...

Continuous Releases 21 May 2012
One of the interesting things that I find with my iOS app is that they are updated fairly regularly. I have 20-30 apps, and I would guess that 3-4 of them are updated on any given week. Some of those are bug fixes, some of those are enhancements, but they are regularly changing. I don’t [...]

Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta 2012 18 May 2012
My fourth visit to the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta will be tomorrow where I’ll deliver two talks: Branding Yourself for a Dream Job – 9:30am, Rm 1130 Unstructured Data in SQL Server – 3:15, Rm 1402 There’s still time to register if you’re in the Denver area, and you will get a full day ...