What Encryption Algorithms Are You Using?

Security is an important consideration when designing a database application. Who can get access to what data? How much damage...

Better Writing from Hemingway

These are five rules for writing from Ernest Hemingway, which I like and recommend for use in your communications. Definitely...

Big Data I: 16 Papers and original articles

  What are the most influential papers in the world of Big Data?  Let me suggest:...

Big Data I: 16 Papers and original articles

  What are the most influential papers in the world of Big Data?  Let me suggest: http://bit.ly/BigData1 We face a data management problem: IDC 2010 Digital Unverse Study http://bit.ly/BigData2...

How to become an expert in your field

I have been compiling a list of what things a person can do to become an expert, or guru, in...

More Bloopers for Memorial Day

It’s Memorial Day, and as usual, I have a blooper reel for the editorial. However I couldn’t fit everything in...

Optimizer Timeouts with XQuery

I was looking at performance of a database and I noticed a few of the plans were very large and...

SQL Query Run Time Estimation

A followup to a post about subqueries with an estimation for how long it would take for the query to...

Can Scrum work for the DBA?

Agile! Scrum! Development methodologies! Sprint!

If you have a manager who reads any web page about being a manager, then you...

SqlHerts–26th May 2011

Thanks to those who turned out to see my presentation at SqlHerts on Thursday 26thMay.  Its a true pleasure to...