2012-09-19
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Editorial
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
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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
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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
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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
275 reads
A Cloudy Future
The future of employment in the technology industry means learning to do more with less.
2012-09-10
139 reads
Document First, Code Later
Phil Factor on the many advantages of building the code from the documentation. For one, it forces us to learn the language and concepts of the business processes before designing the schema.
2012-09-10
294 reads
The Dream Machine
This Friday Steve Jones has a fun poll. If your new boss told you to spec out a machine, what would you choose?
2012-09-07
144 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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