Some of my greatest mistakes
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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David Poole
Organisations and Technical Apartheid
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 RDBMSs
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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Experiments with full text search
Would a crazy idea using full text thesaurus and phonetic keys actually have worked?
2019-03-26
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GDPR - A guide for the perplexed
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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Soundex - Experiments with SQLCLR Part 3
Acknowledging fundamental design flaws lead to a more flexible, maintainable phonetic framework
2018-11-23 (first published: 2015-08-27)
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Auto-suggesting foreign keys and data model archaeology
If you can understand the data model then you can understand the intent of the application developers.
2018-07-06 (first published: 2016-01-26)
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2018-03-12
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Vagrant and SQL Server 2017 on Linux
Vagrant provides a mechanism to build and configure a virtual Linux box running SQL Server 2017
2017-11-14
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The Power of the Data Model
A data model is far more powerful than simply a set of build instructions for DBAs. It can be used to shape business thought and actions for the benefit of all.
2017-02-14
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