2010-07-05
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Editorial
Are We Not Testing Enough?
This Friday Steve Jones asks if we are setting the bar high enough when interviewing people and would you want to test more?
2010-07-02
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Lost Data
Steve Jones talks about the loss of data, and how it can impact your life. And why you want to be sure that your restores are ready in the event of a disaster.
2010-07-01
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On Being the 2009 Exceptional DBA
A guest editorial from Josef Richberg, winner of the Exceptional DBA contests in 2009.
2010-06-30
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The Breakfast Plan Goes Awry
A simple motivational plan goes sideways in this guest editorial from Andy Warren.
2010-06-29
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Kudos to the Community
Steve Jones takes a day to thank everyone that donates their time to help others in the community.
2010-06-28
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The Great Forum Debate
Phil discusses the pros and cons of the traditional versus stack overflow-style model for forum debate, and wonders whether there is a database model that would support all these different forms of discussion, or cooperative work, so that we can simply fit the 'visualization' to the nature of the particular discussion.
2010-06-28
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The Phantom DBA
This week Steve Jones has a poll about the difficulties in getting the DBA position into companies. What's your current opinion of this profession?
2010-06-25
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Dinosaur Databases
Do you work on a database system that's a dinosaur? A recent article called out RDBMSse as dinosaurs, but Steve Jones doesn't think that's correct.
2010-06-24
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We Still Need Human Judgment
Computers aren't necessarily more infallible than humans, and they aren't necessarily even going to make better decisions. We still need humans in the decision process.
2014-12-08 (first published: 2010-06-23)
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Blogs
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,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Forums
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