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Opinions and Votes

When we look to improve software, we are often expressing our opinion on which items need to be handled first. It's helpful to keep in mind that it's an opinion being expressed, and not a vote, no matter how much it is solicited by a company.

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Building a Matrix

DevOps–Fixing Poorly Named Constraints

I was building some code the other day and kept getting problems in my deployment for a change. The deployment...

Hiring Heterogeneously

Hiring a diverse group of people can make your team work better. Steve Jones has a few thoughts today.

Using Database Master Keys in SQL Server

Learn the basics of Database Master Keys and how you can use them in SQL Server.

EXTRACTing in U-SQL

Hiring Guitarists

Hiring senior people is hard, but Steve Jones stumbled upon an idea that compares hiring technology people to hiring a senior level technology expert.

Using Merge–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...