Would You Do Your Hobby for a Living
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that asks about your hobbies, and would you trade your job for one of them?
2010-05-28
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Editorial
Personal Privacy
A new technique to help anonymize medical research data has been developed, and could help with other types of data, but there is an issue.
2010-05-27
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The Death March
Are you working too hard? Is it worth it? Steve Jones says that it is not and that you should push back.
2010-05-25
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A Smarter Planet
IBM has this tagline about a smarter planet and has a great video about the Internet of Things. Steve Jones looks at some of the issues we might have in actually using all this data.
2010-05-24
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Clustered Indexes? Sedimentary, my dear Watson
There is much sound advice suggesting that every table should have a clustered index, and that narrow, integer, ever-increasing columns, such as afforded by an IDENTITY column are the best choice. But is the sedimentary approach really the natural order of the day?
2010-05-24
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Where a Rose is not a rose…
Just because mistakes have become entrenched in the computer languages that we use doesn't mean we have to tolerate them
2010-05-21
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Does the Job Matter To You?
How important is your job to you? Today's guest editorial from Andy Warren asks the question of the professionals out there, some of whom do great work, but don't care about their jobs.
2026-09-07 (first published: 2010-05-20)
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A regression of the art of database development
Recent experts in Development techniques don't seem inclined to study the history of programming; There isn't that much that's new in the art of Unit Testing database development work
2010-05-19
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Be Your Own Expert
Learning to be the expert yourself might be the best support decision that you can make for your career and company.
2010-05-18
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Precious Ideas
Steve Jones talks about encrypting stored procedures and why it's a bad idea. And that it's a feature that should be removed from SQL Server.
2010-05-17
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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...
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