Are IT Certifications Still Relevant?
Steve talks about certifications today, after watching a video that showcases the benefits of why they are good for your career.
2024-05-08
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Steve talks about certifications today, after watching a video that showcases the benefits of why they are good for your career.
2024-05-08
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Are DBAs going to be responsible for financial accounting for cloud resources as a part of their job? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2024-05-06
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The world seems to be proceeding through some stuff at the moment. IT and our industry as a whole, equally seems to be going through some stuff. As such, allow this oldster to offer some advice: Take care of yourself. I know, I'm the same, you may have responsibilities for others. You need to take […]
2024-05-04
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Today Steve asks about on-call responsibility for you and how you view this as part of your job, or in your job search.
2024-05-03
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A big part of success is making an effort. Steve discusses the need to do things and not passively let life pass you by.
2024-05-01
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Today, Kendra Little talks about code reviews and why they should be done early.
2024-04-29 (first published: 2020-02-07)
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Since the title might be considered a bit vague, I don’t want you to wade through the article to figure it out. I will spare you the typical clickbait introduction, with me telling you what a foreign key constraint is, and why it and all the other constraint types provided by relational engines are useful. […]
2024-04-27
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Today, Grant talks about reasons that companies don't upgrade.
2024-04-26 (first published: 2020-02-11)
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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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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
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create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers