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
547 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
182 reads
Holidays and other Social Technologies
A look at what passes for technology from Bill Nicolich in our guest editorial.
2012-12-18
121 reads
SharePoint - Subversive?
A reflective editorial on how SharePoints and other collaborative work spaces are getting used.
2012-01-02
234 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
1,808 reads
Queries for SSC Community Participation
Bill Nicolich uses T-SQL to look at the community participation of people at SQLServerCentral.
2010-12-23
1,597 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
1,234 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
4,492 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
8,643 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
2,100 reads
Blogs
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
Forums
Memes and Humor: Lightening Up Open Source AI News
This delightful corner of our community celebrates the lighter, funnier side of artificial intelligence,...
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
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