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
1,749 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.
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
1,228 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
4,451 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
2,088 reads
Handicapped by Choice
The picture I got from public school about evolutionary processes - and the view that I think most people share - has...
2010-04-06
769 reads
The Apples and Oranges of Training
SQL Server Training is out there in all sorts of formats, price points and quality. It's time to look at...
2010-02-25
913 reads
Job Quality
Through a circuitous route, I encountered a meaningful, thought-provoking quote lately: "... the best way to predict the future is to...
2010-02-16
1,506 reads
Database Developer tools in Team Foundation Server Now Available in Visual Studio 2010 Premium
So this week I attended a preview for Visual Studio 2010. In addition to database development, I do ASP.NET development...
2009-12-04
2,125 reads
Flight or Invisibility: Which do you Choose?
A colleague of mine pointed out a great podcast called This American Life - specifically an episode with John Hodgman (the...
2009-11-12
1,040 reads
Will the New PASS Summit Attendees be Back?
Despite the down economy, the 2009 PASS Summit attendance was down only 8% compared to the 15% of other conferences...
2009-11-12
768 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Incidental Contact High
By Steve Jones
incidental contact high – n. an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job...
Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server and Entra Groups
My company is moving from an Azure PostgreSQL single server to a flexible server....
Take the 2025 State of Database Landscape Survey
By Steve Jones
The survey is out now and you can share your experiences for a chance...
Forums
GIT Configuration and Automated Release for Azure Data Factory
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How to Add a New Shared Disk to a WSFC as a SQL Resource
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Knowing What You Don't Know
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