Documentation is never a favorite task for developers. This article describes how you can use database system catalogs to make generating column descriptions less labor-intensive and also jump start a data dictionary or catalog.
2020-01-14
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Technical skills come and go while soft skills will serve you throughout your life. They will have the greatest influence over your career, job and role. For some people soft skills come naturally. As an Aspergers person (Aspie) I have to practice my soft skills at every opportunity. Pure techies need not lose hope. Soft […]
2019-09-19
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If you want to be an effective communicator focus on what your audience need to hear rather than what you want to say
2019-09-02 (first published: 2016-01-29)
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Vagrant provides a mechanism to build and configure a virtual Linux box running SQL Server 2017
2019-08-16 (first published: 2017-11-14)
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You are never too experienced to make mistakes. An occasional dose of humble pie serves as a reminder to up our game.
2019-07-05 (first published: 2017-05-18)
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Today we have a guest editorial that looks at DevOps and the need for your culture to promote collaboration.
2019-06-28
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NOSQL and RDBMS are evolving and absorbing ideas from each other. Is this necessarily a good thing? Perhaps we should think again
2019-06-12 (first published: 2015-08-27)
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Would a crazy idea using full text thesaurus and phonetic keys actually have worked?
2019-03-26
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If a picture paints a thousand words then can GDPR regulation be represented in diagram form? Could doing so make it easier to comply with the regulation by making it easier to understand?
2019-02-18 (first published: 2018-01-11)
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Acknowledging fundamental design flaws lead to a more flexible, maintainable phonetic framework
2018-11-23 (first published: 2015-08-27)
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