Data Debt
The idea of data debt seems both silly and obvious to Steve. We all have too much data and it's out of control.
2025-01-31
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The idea of data debt seems both silly and obvious to Steve. We all have too much data and it's out of control.
2025-01-31
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In the first part of this two-part series, I covered the mostly non-technical aspects of building a data culture. While the lion’s share of the work will be getting people to work together and embrace ever deeper use of data, as a reader of Simple-Talk, a lot of this transition will be technical.
2024-05-15
There is an interesting court case on who is responsible for the data being posted on the Internet. Steve has a few thoughts today.
2023-03-29
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Every once in a while, I find a list of places posted on the Internet with a "how many have you visited?" question attached. This might be US states, countries, cities, or even attractions. I love traveling with my wife and having new experiences, and as we've gotten older, we value the experiences more than […]
2022-04-29
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There are lots of data exchange formats, and one of them that has become popular is YAML. However, are you sure you have the entire file?
2021-07-26
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There are lots of predictions that people make at the start of every year. I've written quite a few over the years, but in 2020 I decided not to make any. After all, there are plenty of other people making them. One person that did make some was Jeff Clarke, COO of Dell. He wrote […]
2020-04-22
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2019-12-18
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2019-11-26
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Is it better to copy and distribute data or centralize it? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2019-10-15
242 reads
A few problems in travel have Steve thinking about the complexities and challenges of companies that coordinate lots of data.
2019-07-23
264 reads
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I have this table in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE TABLE CustomerLarge (CustomerID INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1) CONSTRAINT CustomerLargePK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED , CustomerName VARCHAR(20) , CustomerContactFirstName VARCHAR(40) , CustomerContactLastName VARCHAR(40) , Address VARCHAR(20) , Address2 VARCHAR(20) , City VARCHAR(20) , CountryCode CHAR(3) , Postal VARCHAR(20) ) GOIf I check the columns_updated() function return in a trigger, what is the data returned? See possible answers