The following came across my YouTube feed today. It’s an interview with General James Mattis, USMC, Retired, talking about lifelong learning, the expectations of learning in the Marine Corps,...
2026-10-28 (first published: 2026-10-23)
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Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg. In this video, he delves into why we procrastinate...
2026-10-27
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I wear many hats in technology, and one of those is as a (cyber)security professional. Needless to say, the timeline around the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities has me interested. SecurityWeek has...
2026-10-26
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The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to be an ever present fear. The technology changes but the fear and the marketing around...
2026-10-05 (first published: 2026-09-22)
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Do you have a case where you have a named instance you'd like to migrate to a default instance? Is there pushback on doing so? Are there concerns that...
2026-09-07 (first published: 2026-08-26)
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A few months ago I started using Deepstash. Deepstash breaks books into the key ideas, usually 10-12 per book. If I am thinking about reading a book, I check...
2026-08-27
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Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to gain perspective.
2026-08-24 (first published: 2026-08-14)
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Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing are two areas of emerging technology that receive most of the tech news. However, the Stanford Emerging Technology Review tries to include any relevant...
2026-08-19 (first published: 2026-08-04)
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Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad data in production. If you’ve never been in this situation, having a plan beforehand is...
2026-08-17 (first published: 2026-07-30)
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If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview) to find cryptographic weaknesses in two algorithms. However, this doesn't impact anything anyone has in...
2026-08-12 (first published: 2026-07-29)
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By James Serra
(This post starts a three-part series on how AI is changing the way we...
I built a free library of runnable SQL Server demos. Each reproduces a real...
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
We're currently in Azure, however as we had a very tight migration timeline when...
I have a section of code similar to the following abstract: DECLARE @loop [int]...
Hello everyone, I am planning to implement a data purging solution that is expected...
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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