The Pervasive Nature of Open Source

This week there was a headline that said "Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds" and if you stopped reading there, you might think, hey, it's not in the apps I work on. Or you might think that because you use OSS software, most of the world also does. Microsoft, Oracle, […]

A New Word: Fardle-dun

fardle-din – n. a long-overdue argument that shakes up a relationship, burning wildly through your issues like a forest fire, which clears out your dry and hollow grievances and...

Big Queries, Big Money

I had been meaning to post this, so as I finished a piece that referenced this, I decided to post the picture. This was from Small Data SF, where...

Distributed Monoliths

What is a distributed monolith vs. a microservice architecture? Steve has a few thoughts today.

Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle

The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS Data Community Summit. This was a lot of fun, us grabbing a space in the...

Subqueries II

More Funny SELECTs

Reducing the Cycle Time

Building software can be hard and lots of people have tried various methodologies to improve the way their teams work. Steve notes a lot of the process is the same, but he has a preference.

The Funny SELECTs

Doing a Little Research

I've been very pleased with the direction of SSMS the last few years. As it's been separated from SQL Server releases and gets updated more often, I think the changes from v17 though v20 have been improvements. There are still issues, but it's been better. Now we finally have SSMS moving to a modern shell […]