Desktop or Laptop for Remote Work

This week Steve discusses the desktops versus laptops.

Filtering the Dataframe in Python

The EU New Stars of Data Come Tomorrow

One of the things I’ve tried to do when SQL Saturdays is ensure there are lots of local speakers, and new speakers. I’ve argued for more new speakers at...

Attacks on Unsecured Databases

Unsecured databases are a problem, but someone is fighting this issue by wiping them out.

Daily Coping 11 Aug 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

My T-SQL Tuesday #129 Time Capsule

This month the T-SQL Tuesday invitation comes from Tamara Clark. I strong-armed Tamara last fall, along with her husband, into hosting this year. She came through, with a great...

The D in ACID

A Data Attack

A ransomware attack takes down Garmin, not just the company, but also Steve's data. He has a few thoughts about what this might mean for our data.

Daily Coping 10 Aug 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Fixing Broken Pip

I’ve got Python 3.8 on my machine, and recently I got a note that my pip version was old. I tried to upgrade PIP recently with this command: c:python38python.exe...