Working in Smaller Teams
Steve likes working in smaller teams and has some thoughts on why this is important to him.
2019-09-23
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Career
Soft Skills: Controlling your career
Technical skills come and go while soft skills will serve you throughout your life. They will have the greatest influence over your career, job and role. For some people soft skills come naturally. As an Aspergers person (Aspie) I have to practice my soft skills at every opportunity. Pure techies need not lose hope. Soft […]
2019-09-19
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What You Should Know About Coding
Today Steve thinks about the skills and approach we ought to be taught before we start building software as a career.
2019-09-17
284 reads
The Crazy Times of Year
Do you have busy times of the year that recur regularly? In some positions I've held, we had certain events or processes that always caused additional stress and headaches for employees. As a bartender, certain holidays (New Years, Halloween) were extra crazy. In one company, every quarter was an adventure involving a late, or a […]
2019-09-16
139 reads
Staying Focused
Finding the zone, working in the flow, these are the most efficient times for us, but they can be hard to find.
2019-09-13
156 reads
Growing and Changing
It can be hard to let go of old knowledge and try something new, but we need to find a balance.
2019-08-26
166 reads
2019-08-20
404 reads
Organized Learning
Learning to become a DBA is often a winding and twisty road. Steve has a little advice today.
2019-08-13
231 reads
Measuring the Right Things
In this weeks Simple Talk editorial Kathi Kellenberger discusses how to measure the performance of a development team and why you should always make sure you are measuring the right thing, not just the easy thing.
2019-08-12
The 2019 Home Lab
Steve wants to know what's in your current home lab. Leave a note and help others learn to set one up.
2019-08-09
330 reads
Blogs
Graph – Shortest Path
‘Shortest path’ is by far the most feature of SQL Graph for now. What...
Last Week Reading (2019-09-22)
By Kamil
Hello #datafolks! Let’s review what happened last week in Data World. It’s hard to...
Simple Graph Queries
In this post we saw how to create some graph tables with data. In...
Forums
Is Data the Future of the Vibrant Web?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Is Data the Future of...
Automate script for SQL Server Database backup
I am writing a script for automating database backup, which is not working properly....
adding a computed column and partition scheme
Never mind, I figured it out, I need to persist the computed column in...
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