#sqlhelp
The #sqlhelp hashtag on Twitter is a great way to interact with the SQL Server community and get help.
2014-03-13
258 reads
Editorial
Developers, developers, developers
A survey of developers on Stack Overflow has some interesting results that Steve Jones notes. Some of them might just impact our careers as data professionals.
2014-03-11
307 reads
Continuous Delivery
The practice of continuous software development is growing, with continuous integration, deployment, and delivery being topics that Steve Jones is learning about. Today he talks about delivery.
2014-03-10
166 reads
An Integrated Process for Software Delivery.
Developers, enamored of the integrated approach to Software Delivery, would like to be able to respond to business need in business time, adding functionality when the need is recognized, instead of 6-9 months later after it's gone through the sclerotic IT purchasing and configuration process.
2014-03-10
93 reads
2014-03-05
1,412 reads
Is Rolling Back The Same as Failing?
When you must rollback a deployment of changes, is that a failure of the process? The development effort? Or something else?
2025-10-08 (first published: 2014-03-04)
367 reads
Downtime
Most of us are working to prevent downtime in our systems. However Netflix thinks a little forced downtime is good for the software developers and infrastructure people.
2014-03-03
192 reads
DBA Dreams
Louis Davidson on the small dreams that DBAs can nurture, each day, to elevate the drudgery of a seemingly banal task into a celebration of purpose.
2014-03-03
179 reads
Geeky Entertainment
As a break from work, this week Steve Jones wants to know what you wish for. Are there comic book, science fiction, or technological thrillers you'd like to see made into movies?
2014-02-28
161 reads
Open Call for Editorials
Steve Jones is putting out an open call for guest editorial pieces in the spring of 2014. If you're interested, read on.
2014-04-22 (first published: 2014-02-27)
1,253 reads
Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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