As JSON documents becomes increasingly widely used, as the interface between application and database, Phil Factor reckons it's about time JSON Schema was built-in to SQL Server, alongside XML Schema.
2020-01-25
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Phil Factor's offers tips for longevity in the world of IT consultancy: listen well, humiliate no-one and convince others that it was their expertise that solved the problem.
2020-01-18
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At work in IT, we can wander around looking important with no apparent useful skills whatsoever. When working outside the bubble of the industry, things are different.
2019-12-14
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Until you open the box your data is, like Schrödinger's cat, both safe and breached.
2019-11-16
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Phil Factor on the difficult task of guarding against the theft of data from within an organization.
2019-10-19
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Now that we've explored, in preceding levels, some of the information that is available about indexes, triggers, keys and distribution statistics, we can concentrate on the tables themselves and their columns.
2019-10-16 (first published: 2016-12-07)
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Is the DBA a fading star? More likely, there is a general lack of understanding of the roles of the different types of DBA, and of the other IT teams that ensure that successful application developments happen in any large enterprise.
2019-09-25 (first published: 2015-06-08)
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With the help of a database that provides fully representative data, we can do a great deal more to advance medical and pharmaceutical science. Phil Factor explains what stands in our way.
2019-09-21
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If you've ever stuffed SQL Server onto a Raspberry Pi 4 and given it a pet name, don't worry, you're not alone…
2019-08-24
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Phil Factor on dealing with "immutable" domain data during database development and deployment.
2019-08-16 (first published: 2016-01-18)
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