Women in Technology
A guest editorial from Phil Factor today that points out some of the incredibly contributions by women in technology.
2010-01-06
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A guest editorial from Phil Factor today that points out some of the incredibly contributions by women in technology.
2010-01-06
390 reads
In which Phil Factor attempts to justify his iPhones and iPod Touches as a business expense.
2010-01-04
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A guest editorial from Phil Factor looks at the Speed Phreak competition that has been taking place recently and is quite popular. Read about the inspiration for the competition and why you might want to participate.
2009-11-18
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Does a programmer need to know how his code gets executed? Arguably, developers should focus on database structures rather than a particular implementation, and Phil tries to convince us that good programming is not just knowing everything about your programming environment.
2009-11-16
132 reads
If you have a database application that is running slowly, or is straining the server, what do you do? After...
2009-10-25
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The English voice of IT reason, Phil Factor, brings us a guest editorial. Today he waxes about the overbearing processes used to build internal corporate applications.
2009-10-01
178 reads
Phil ponders whether the term 'DBA' is still really meaningful, or if it's just a blunt instrument used to bash a diverse population into a mis-conceived niche. Is it worth the trouble of being typecast, just to have those 3 letters on your CV?
2009-09-21
252 reads
A guest editorial from Phil Factor puts in a good word for ODBC. This is the standard for Windows machines to connect to all kinds of data sources, and is both loved and hated by developers of all kinds.
2009-09-10
312 reads
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of years ago, when I wrote the Simple-Talk Prettifier that is really no more than a stored
procedure...
2009-08-18
2,619 reads
You may think that the task of teasing out the exact nature
of the data and processes within a company...
2009-08-17
2,916 reads
One thing I’ve always loved about the Scooby-Doo cartoon is that he never solved...
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Flexibility and Scale at the Database Level When SQL Server 2012 introduced Availability Groups...
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What happens if you run the following code in SQL Server 2022+?
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