Teammates
This Friday Steve Jones wants you to have some fun and compare yourself to an athlete or media figure, or even a fictional character.
2012-09-21
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Editorial
Data Worms
Worms have been around a long time in computer systems. However changes in the global policies of governments and the possible retaliation for cyber warfare should have DBAs concerned.
2012-09-20
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2012-09-19
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Compress Everything
Data grows constantly and the size of some of our databases seems to have no end in sight. Steve Jones notes that we might just want to compress everything, just to keep up.
2012-09-18
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Three Rules for Database Development
Today Steve Jones talks about a series of rules he found for database development.
2012-09-17
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A Quick Count
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know if your career is also helping your wardrobe. (This editorial was originally published on Aug 23, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is on vacation.)
2012-09-14
189 reads
More CPU Means More Data
Faster CPUs allow us to perform more complex modeling and analysis of variables, and hopefully come up with better decisions. However that more complex analysis means more data.
2012-09-13
176 reads
Creativity
What if you could stop all work for a month and have people find ways to improve the business? Would you take the chance?
2012-09-12
160 reads
Mining and Algorithms
The algorithms that you use to query or mine data are very important. Amazon knows their recommendations algorithms are important. Do you know what's important in your job?
2012-09-11
286 reads
A Cloudy Future
The future of employment in the technology industry means learning to do more with less.
2012-09-10
141 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
Learning Tool – Deepstash
By Brian Kelley
A few months ago I started using Deepstash. Deepstash breaks books into the key...
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The Data API Builder MCP Server Tools
The Data API Builder MCP Server, v2.x, includes a number of tools. What actions can these tools perform in your database?
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