Multiple Display Productivity
How many monitors do you need? Steve notes that having multiple ones seems to be a standard these days for tech workers. Do more make you more productive? Answer the poll today.
2024-05-10
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Editorials
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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The DBAccountant
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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Take Care
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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The On-Call Load
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
66 reads
Action Over Knowledge
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
111 reads
Why Early Code Review is Important for Database Deployments
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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One more reason to use foreign key constraints
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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Good Luck is Needed with Old Versions
Today, Grant talks about reasons that companies don't upgrade.
2024-04-26 (first published: 2020-02-11)
439 reads
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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Blogs
A New Word: ioia
By Steve Jones
ioia – n.the wish that you could see statistics overlaid on every person you...
Redgate Summit Comes to the Windy City
By Steve Jones
I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event,...
Non-Functional Requirements
By Brian Kelley
I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a...
Forums
SQL Server Encrypt data into a file, send it and then decrypt
First off, my apologies for what could potentially be a bad title! I am...
Table partitioning best practice
I've inherited a couple of rather large databases from my ex-colleague when I join...
Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in Power BI - Part 2
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in...
Question of the Day
Finding Marks
I have marked a few transactions in my code. How can I find out which marks were stored in a transaction log?
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