The Importance of Clear Data Displays
An accident on a ship is being blamed on unclear data visualization.
2017-11-06
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Editorial
2017-11-01
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2017-10-31
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How Far are You Willing To Go To Get Something?
There are important things in life and in our career, how far are you willing to go to get them?
2017-10-30
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Perspective
I find it extremely easy to sometimes lose sight of the important stuff. The day-to-day grind can seriously get in the way. I think this is a big part of how we find ourselves having so many silly intra-organizational turf wars. The developers don’t like how the DBAs do things. The DBAs are frustrated with […]
2017-10-30
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Physical or Virtual Storage
This week Steve Jones talked about physical hardware, asking who might still pay attention.
2017-10-27
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Unstructured Data
Unstructured data can be misleading. Steve Jones has a few thoughts today on how he sees this term.
2017-10-26
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2017-10-25
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Gigging for a Career
The idea of working on just projects is tailor made for a data professional. Or is it?
2023-11-13 (first published: 2017-10-24)
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2017-10-23
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Which Object Definitions Are Available?
For which of these object types can I get the code when I run the OBJECT_DEFINITION() function in SQL Server 2025? (choose 3)
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