What Counts as Work - in Software Development
Bill explores the consequences of people not seeing the value in doing things that are crucial to the success of projects.
2013-12-11
541 reads
Bill Nicolich
- Interests: E-commerce data. Set-based operations. Automation programming. Architecture of public interfaces and private interfaces within classes. Managing complexity. Evolutionary psychology. Classic literature. The author Joseph Conrad. The author Marianne Moore.
Insensitivity: A Good Technique?
This article explores the place of emotion among knowledge workers doing team-based design activities.
2013-04-05
179 reads
Holidays and other Social Technologies
A look at what passes for technology from Bill Nicolich in our guest editorial.
2012-12-18
115 reads
SharePoint - Subversive?
A reflective editorial on how SharePoints and other collaborative work spaces are getting used.
2012-01-02
228 reads
Visualize Tech Skills
Is your area of responsibility starved for resources? Is it difficult to get a raise? If so, don't despair. You're...
2011-02-24
1,784 reads
Queries for SSC Community Participation
Bill Nicolich uses T-SQL to look at the community participation of people at SQLServerCentral.
2010-12-23
1,590 reads
The Real Purpose for Kindle
It finally dawned on me why people would bother getting a separate book-reading device like Kindle - and why it might...
2010-12-22
1,230 reads
The Development DBA Role
The Development DBA role, though not as common as the more prominent DBA and Database Developer roles in the database...
2010-12-01
4,481 reads
Query-generated Column Expressions
A technique from Bill Nicolich that allows you to target columns by data type for the same custom expression and easily build complex queries.
2010-05-25
8,637 reads
SCRUM Training with Alistair Cockburn
I wanted the SCRUM Master certification this year, and could have gone local, but I wanted to get the training...
2010-04-30
2,096 reads
Blogs
Local LLM Models at SQL Saturday Boston 2025
By Steve Jones
I’m starting a long trip at Boston this weekend. I’ll be there Saturday speaking,...
3 things you must do to start data quality management right
As a data & AI strategist who’s seen countless projects succeed and fail, I...
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server
By SQLPals
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server Not long ago,...
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Changing the Recovery Time
I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers