(2022-Jan-27) When Hogarth, a nine-year-old boy, a character from “The Iron Giant” movie, met a 50-foot tall alien robot, whom he eventually befriended, he didn't know about a very special...
2022-01-27
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(2022-Jan-10) My short answer to this question is Yes and No. Yes, you can use Windows self-hosted Azure DevOps agent to deploy Python function to the Linux based Azure Function...
2022-01-26 (first published: 2022-01-10)
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(2021-Dec-20) Part of the continuous integration and delivery for Azure Data Factory involves pre-deployment and post-deployment steps. Their main role is to stop triggers before deployment and restart them afterward,...
2021-12-27 (first published: 2021-12-20)
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(2021-Nov-30) I heard a story about a young person who was asked why she was always cutting a small piece of meat and putting it aside before cooking a larger...
2021-12-10 (first published: 2021-11-30)
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(2021-Oct-31) A very short blog post, just a reminder to myself, but if you have ever tried to connect to a PostgreSQL database using ODBC interface (I know, it already...
2021-11-10 (first published: 2021-11-01)
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(2021-Sep-21) There is one scene in "The Core" movie that I really like when two geophysicists were asked to explain certain anomalies that were projected on a computer screen. One of...
2021-10-01 (first published: 2021-09-21)
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(2021-July-30) A picture is worth a thousand words, the same way a visual database schema is better than a database model communicated by a multitude of data scripting text objects.
Someone...
2021-08-16 (first published: 2021-07-31)
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(2021-Jun-30) One of my university professors liked to tell us a quote, “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”, in a way to help us, his students, to stay active in...
2021-07-14 (first published: 2021-06-30)
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(2021-July-07) Back in the late 90s when I was a college student intern at a local power supply company, I was invited to a social event of our IT department....
2021-07-07
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(2021-Jun-16) Recently, Google started to notify me that my blog website (http://datanrg.blogspot.com/) had been experiencing some ‘Server (5xx)’ errors. Nothing has been changed on my side, and I’m not sure how...
2021-06-23 (first published: 2021-06-16)
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By Steve Jones
Today’s coping tip is to appreciate your hands and all the things they do...
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On to the FIRST Robotics Competition 2023 World Championship Last week I wrote about...
My biggest fear when my book went into production was that any factual errors...
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