Simple Metadata
Tagging has become a new hot action for many people on the Internet, especially in the Web 2.0 social networking world. Steve Jones comes to a revelation about tagging and metadata.
2008-12-15
361 reads
Editorial
Guest Editorial: On writing SQL
The exceptional talents of seasoned engineers and developers can never quite be rendered obscelete by technological wizardry. Phil Factor considered old-school intuition, and wonders if he's missed a trick.
2008-12-12
486 reads
Versioning Over Time
How do you handle the tracking of changes across time in a database? Not auditing, but the actual structural and schema changes. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with rapidly changing versions.
2008-12-11
360 reads
Alone Time
Working in a distributed team can be challenging, but working in an office can be just as difficult. Steve Jones talks a bit about time management today.
2008-12-10
202 reads
Getting Close to Physical - Database Weekly (Nov 8, 2008)
The performance of virtual machines is getting closer and closer to that of physical machines with better software like Hyper-V.
2008-12-08
251 reads
The Need for Auditing
Is C2 auditing widely used? Should it be more widely used? Steve Jones talks about the subject of auditing in today's editorial.
2014-09-16 (first published: 2008-12-08)
672 reads
Data Vices
Steve Jones asks about what you might change about yourself at work for this Friday's poll.
2014-09-12 (first published: 2008-12-05)
166 reads
Just Keep Going and Going and Going
The upgrade treadmill might hit you in ways that you didn't expect.
2008-12-04
147 reads
The Energizer Bunny
Energizer, one of the world's leading battery manufacturers, is looking to have Microsoft host much of their infrastructure.
2008-12-03
135 reads
2008-12-02
211 reads
Blogs
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...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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