Infographics
Today Steve Jones has a poll that asks about the visualizations or infographics that you find to be most effective.
2013-12-20
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Editorial
The Challenge of Time Off
It can be a challenge for some people to get away from work. Today Steve Jones gives you some of his advice.
2013-12-19
129 reads
This is how to fail
Today we have a guest editorial from Tim Mitchell that talks about security and communications with your customers. Ultimately it pays to be open and honest.
2016-12-15 (first published: 2013-12-17)
400 reads
Regrets of the Last Decade
After Steve Ballmer shares some of his thoughts on his time as CEO, Steve Jones decided to give a few of his own thoughts.
2013-12-16
189 reads
Encrypt Everything
Yahoo recently announced they are encrypting their traffic between data centers. Steve Jones thinks we should encrypt all traffic.
2013-12-16
406 reads
2013-12-13
158 reads
PVPs
Today Steve Jones talks about those PVPs, private virtual properties, that your company may own. There are challenges with maintaining these items that show the technology field's immaturity.
2013-12-12
76 reads
What Counts as Work - in Software Development
Bill explores the consequences of people not seeing the value in doing things that are crucial to the success of projects.
2013-12-11
547 reads
The 2013 Tribal Awards
The inaugural 2013 Tribal Awards kick off today and Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2013-12-09
119 reads
Relationally Divided over EAV
A document search on a billion row "EAV" table is predicted to take 134 days. With a few design tweaks and an efficient relational division algorithm, Peter Larsson got it down to milliseconds.
2024-08-07 (first published: 2013-12-09)
3,312 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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