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Can you build your own brand at work?]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67573/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/17</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67573/</link></item><item><title>Advice for the Unemployed</title><description><![CDATA[Everyone has an opinion on the best advice to give an IT person who is unemployed and wants to get back into paid work. Phil Factor outlines what he would advise.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67535/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/16</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67535/</link></item><item><title>Over-Engineering</title><description><![CDATA[Steve Jones thinks that we often over-engineer software, trying too hard to consider every possibility rather than getting it close.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67533/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/15</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67533/</link></item><item><title>Corporate Hackers</title><description><![CDATA[A report says that most of the data lost in corporations is from employees. What can be done about it? Steve Jones thinks we still have work to do in this area.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67529/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/14</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67529/</link></item><item><title>No Google</title><description><![CDATA[Recently Google was unavailable for a good part of one day. Steve Jones felt the impact and thinks this could slow the adoption of cloud computing.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67518/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/13</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67518/</link></item><item><title>The Worst Advice</title><description><![CDATA[We all try to help others with advice, but sometimes we end up doing damage. Steve Jones asks for the worst advice you see given in this Friday poll.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67475/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/10</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67475/</link></item><item><title>Turning Over Passwords</title><description><![CDATA[Would you disclose the password for your online sites to get a job? That was required of applicants in Bozeman, MT until recently. Steve Jones is stunned by this.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67470/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/09</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67470/</link></item><item><title>Administering Securely</title><description><![CDATA[A common request is how can you secure SQL Server data and prevent the system administrator from viewing data. Steve Jones talks a little about the issue and how you can handle it.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67448/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/08</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67448/</link></item><item><title>Music for DBAs</title><description><![CDATA[Tony Davis explains his theory on why developers and DBAs listen to very different types of music, while working, and offers his list of &quot;classic tracks&quot; for all DBAs.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67432/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/07</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67432/</link></item><item><title>Recharged on the 4th of July</title><description><![CDATA[After a week of vacation, Steve Jones feels recharged and ready to head back to work. Today we celebrate the holiday with a blooper reel.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67438/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/06</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67438/</link></item><item><title>The Independence Day Ruckus</title><description><![CDATA[Steve is away this Fourth of July, so we asked Brian Donahue, head of the Red Gate product support team, and an American &quot;exiled&quot; in the UK, to reflect on what Independence Day means to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67430/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/03</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67430/</link></item><item><title>Stress</title><description><![CDATA[Developers and DBAs both tend to lead stressful lives. Occasionally, things don't go to plan, and this stress can then build to pretty intolerable levels. Without adaptive methods of dealing with stress, things can go very wrong...]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67418/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/02</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67418/</link></item><item><title>What is the Best Way to Test SQL?</title><description><![CDATA[Over the past five or so years, encouraging progress has been made with regard to testing .NET application code...I wish I could say that the same progress had been made with testing SQL.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67406/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/01</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67406/</link></item><item><title>Documenting Database Code: Structured Headers</title><description><![CDATA[When you're doing any database development work, it won't be long before you need to seriously consider the documentation of your routines. Should we, as a community, propose a common standard for T-SQL headers, and the information that should go into them?]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67416/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/30</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67416/</link></item><item><title>What's Your Ideal DBA Job?</title><description><![CDATA[Brad engages in a little Summer daydreaming, and wonders what the Ideal DBA job would look like...]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67414/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/29</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67414/</link></item><item><title>Making Demands</title><description><![CDATA[Imagine you are invited to speak somewhere and you have a bit of power. Have some fun with this Friday's poll and let us know what you'd demand.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67379/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/26</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67379/</link></item><item><title>Trusting Online</title><description><![CDATA[How do you earn trust online? How do you decide who to trust? Steve Jones comments a bit about this this works in the digital world.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67356/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/25</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67356/</link></item><item><title>Expect an Attack</title><description><![CDATA[Most companies in a recent survey expect to get hacked this year. Steve Jones wishes that the technological leaders would help everyone develop more secure code by publishing more information.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67353/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/24</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67353/</link></item><item><title>Becoming a DBA</title><description><![CDATA[Steve Jones was recently asked how he knows someone is ready to be a DBA. It's an interesting question and he shares some thoughts on this today.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67347/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/23</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67347/</link></item><item><title>Grown Up Software</title><description><![CDATA[We all want to write better software, but do we really want to write grown up software? Steve Jones talks about one of the most successful software groups ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67315/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/22</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67315/</link></item><item><title>Going Native</title><description><![CDATA[This Friday Steve Jones asks about advice for other DBAs. What's the best way for those intermediate and accidental DBAs to handle maintenance on their servers?]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67291/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/19</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67291/</link></item><item><title>The Best Minds</title><description><![CDATA[What do you want when you go to a conference? Great speakers or great information? Steve Jones talks a little about how we get both in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67273/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/18</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67273/</link></item><item><title>Why Object Databases will always be Tomorrow's Technology</title><description><![CDATA[For many years now we always seem to have been on the verge of the revolution in object databases, without it ever quite transpiring. Why is this?]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67218/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/17</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67218/</link></item><item><title>The Simple Estimate</title><description><![CDATA[Why can't it be easy for someone to tackle small projects? It is in some areas, and Steve Jones talks a little about some of the issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67245/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/16</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67245/</link></item><item><title>Are You an Exceptional DBA?</title><description><![CDATA[The Exceptional DBA award is back again in 2009. Steve Jones comments a little on his experience last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67220/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/15</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67220/</link></item><item><title>Back to the Future</title><description><![CDATA[Steve Jones asks this Friday if there is anything you wish you might have done differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67200/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/12</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67200/</link></item><item><title>Who's At Fault</title><description><![CDATA[Who do you blame when software fails? Hopefully you don't hire a lawyer before you do. Steve Jones talks about liability and software.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67199/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/11</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67199/</link></item><item><title>Mining for Quitters</title><description><![CDATA[Google is trying to figure out who might quit the company, using their own custom application. Steve Jones thinks this is a great idea and wishes more companies would do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67193/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/10</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67193/</link></item><item><title>Support Your Local SQL Server User’s Group</title><description><![CDATA[Are user groups dying out in the age of the Internet? It seemed that way for awhile, but Brad McGehee gives some reasons why you should think about attending a meeting.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67191/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/09</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67191/</link></item><item><title>Software Giants</title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. What does this mean for SQL Server? Steve Jones thinks it's good.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67178/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/08</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/67178/</link></item></channel></rss>
