Helping Students with a Data Professional Career
Steve has advice for students looking to become data professionals.
2025-06-02
120 reads
Career Growth
Rising Pay for Certifications
People with certifications are seeing their pay rise faster than others. Steve has a few thoughts on this today.
2025-05-05
133 reads
2025-04-30
108 reads
2025-04-21
224 reads
Is GenAI Coming Faster Than You Think?
GenAI technologies have created a lot of concern among many tech workers. Steve has a few thoughts on how these technologies might impact data professionals.
2025-03-31
123 reads
AI Tools for Job Seekers – Salary
In our conversations with job seekers, a consistent theme has been HOW do you use AI tools. This can be used to get new ideas, improve and optimize resumes, understand trends/market data, determine new connections and networking avenues, save time, alleviate headaches and roadblocks, and be more efficient and effective overall. Well, say goodbye to the days where you need to start a cover letter or resume from scratch or feel isolated, alone, and anxious during the resume writing, interview prep, salary negotiation, and other parts of the job search process, as we all now have an incredibly powerful job searching tool and career coach at our disposal to help with any writer’s block and almost every challenge you may run into!
2025-03-19
The Job Outlook for Database Professionals
The job outlook for database professionals is good, but it's not that easy to get a great job. Steve has some advice for you today.
2025-03-05
217 reads
No End to Programmers
The idea of chat-oriented programming has led some people to think that AI LLMs will reduce the need for programmers. Steve disagrees.
2025-02-08
124 reads
Can You Become a More Productive Engineer?
Steve has a few thoughts on becoming more effective. This involves more than just becoming a better coder.
2025-01-24
148 reads
Adding the Right Value
Are you doing the things at work that your boss cares about or the things you care about? Steve has a few thoughts on this.
2025-01-08
168 reads
Blogs
Comparing Microsoft Fabric Alternatives in AWS, GCP, and OCI in 2025
By Daniel Janik
Microsoft's unified analytics platform, Fabric, simplifies integration across various tools in Azure by offering...
Techno Security East: Quantum Computing Slides
By Brian Kelley
I always try and ensure that I post my slides to my talks here...
A Basic Update Trigger: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables....
Forums
SSIS raw file conversion
Hi, Does anyone know how to handle a raw data file where some rows...
Force Strict Encryption - SQL Agent fails
Hi, On my SQL 2022 (16.0.4195.2) test environment, I tried to enable Force Strict...
Error converting data type varchar to float
Hi everyone I have a bunch of CSV files that I need to import...
Question of the Day
How Many Nested Triggers?
I have DDL trigger code that I'm working on in SQL Server 2022, but I am concerned that we might end up with multiple triggers firing and the response to the user is delayed. If I want to check how many triggers have fired, or are nested, how can I do this in my code?
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