The Chief Data Officer
The idea of a Chief Data Officer is growing in many companies. Steve thinks this is a good thing.
2022-03-16
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Data Privacy and Protection
Location Data Is Not Anonymous
The world of public data is scary for Steve, even when the data is aggregated. It appears that keeping information private is becoming harder, and perhaps, impossible.
2021-10-04
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Tracking, Privacy, and Lots of Data
Apple has implemented some privacy controls for customers, which some advertisers don't like, but Steve agrees with.
2021-06-16
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Agree or Lose Features
Forcing users to agree to a new EULA or removing features seems like a bad idea to Steve.
2021-05-26
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Differential Privacy
Steve looks at a technique that some think will allow more data to be used in research and training.
2021-05-24
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Finding Legal Data
Using data scraped from the web might be convenient, but is it legal. Perhaps more importantly, is it moral? Steve has a few thoughts.
2021-04-19
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Getting Started with Azure Purview
Introduction Azure Purview is Microsoft’s unified data governance service that helps you discover and get insight into your available data. It replaces Azure Data Catalog and is now based on Apache Atlas, one of the leading open-source data governance and metadata frameworks. Apache Atlas was created by Hortonworks and big names within finance, pharma, etc. […]
2021-02-18
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Data Privacy Grows in California
Changes in data privacy law in California are demanded by consumers.
2021-01-23
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The Best Way to Protect Sensitive Data
Steve has a thought on the best way to protect sensitive data.
2021-01-07
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2020-12-14
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Blogs
Daily Coping 26 May 2022
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Seeding an Availability Group Replica from Snapshot
Background If you’ve been using Availability Groups, you’re familiar with the replica seeding (sometimes...
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By James Serra
There were a number of data platform announcements at Microsoft Build yesterday that I...
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