Learn Better: Pause to Review More
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
2026-01-14 (first published: 2026-01-13)
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
2026-01-19 (first published: 2026-01-08)
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I recommend Smart Brevity (book) for communications
Following the advice in Smart Brevity improves communication.
2026-01-06
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2026-01-14 (first published: 2026-01-05)
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Resetting on the AI hype train
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of AI. AI's current state is somewhere between the die hard evangelists and the doomsayers
2026-01-05 (first published: 2025-12-19)
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4 CPE Opportunity (Virtual) for Charity
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands ISACA Chapter partner together to put on a "CPE catchup" opportunity in December to provide...
2025-12-17
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Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information
For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday newsletter. It tends to hit my inbox in the wee hours of Wednesday.
2025-12-31 (first published: 2025-12-10)
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Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this last part, I'll talk about how I go about taking the exam.
2025-12-19 (first published: 2025-12-08)
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The Benefits of Teaching
Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of time and effort, more so when you build your own content. So why teach?
2025-12-05
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Microsoft AI Red Teaming Course
here is the compiled video of the Red Teaming course Microsoft put together.
2025-12-04
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Blogs
Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Forums
Basic Always On Groups Randomly Stop Synchronizing
In one of my environments I have 3 pairs of Always On SQL 2022...
Learning From Breakage
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Python in Action to Auto-Generate an Optimized PostgreSQL Index Strategy
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Question of the Day
Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers