Toilets and Your Systems
Today, Grant Fritchey compares a disaster caused by a toilet to technical debt in IT.
2024-04-24 (first published: 2020-02-24)
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Editorials
Seagull Management
Management is important to ensuring the success of a team. Steve talks about an anti-pattern that is often used by poor managers.
2024-04-22
129 reads
Do you listen to music when you work?
I want to make this a participation topic. When you are working, do you listen to music or do you need quiet? And if it isn’t music, do you do something else? TV, movies? For me, it is almost always music. As I write my first Database Weekly newsletter editorial in a few months, I […]
2024-04-20
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2024-04-19 (first published: 2020-01-21)
463 reads
Missing the Office
Steve talks about being back in an office today, at a customer where everyone comes in every day.
2024-04-17
95 reads
Kendra’s Top 3 Tips for Working Remotely
A guest editorial today from Kendra has a few tips for working from home.
2024-04-15 (first published: 2020-03-12)
1,210 reads
There's No Free Lunch with Open-source Software
As a member of the PostgreSQL open-source community, I have been following the recent license change by Redis Labes on March 20, 2024. Redis introduced a dual license model, specifically adding the Redis Source Available License (RSAL), which prevents other vendors from providing Redis as a service without a paid subscription from Redis Labs. The […]
2024-04-13
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2024-04-12
70 reads
The Code Freeze
Today Steve discusses code freezes, those times when you don't allow changes to be made by developers.
2024-04-10
111 reads
2024-04-08 (first published: 2019-08-21)
841 reads
Blogs
Going to Cloud? Look at the Shared Responsibility Model
By Brian Kelley
The bottom line here is this: the idea that a CSP takes care of...
How Long Will It Take to Learn SQL? The Truth Might Surprise You
In today's data-driven world, SQL (Structured Query Language) is a blazing-hot skill. It's your...
Flying Halfway Around the World to Australia
By Steve Jones
I leave tonight for Australia. I was in London 3 days ago, so this...
Forums
Fine-tune SQL for better performance
I have been asked to fine-tune the following SQL that was written by a...
Row-level security in SQL server
In this scenario, I seek assistance in implementing row-level permissions for a table named...
SSIS Web Service task SSL errors
I've tried different credentials, target server versions, etc. hitting our Primavera WSDL. Works great...
Question of the Day
Initial Config of tempdb
What are the initial config sizes for the tempdb primary data files, secondary data files, and log files in SQL Server 2022?
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