How do you go about making a big decision?
This article explores the author's way of making big decisions.
2017-04-04
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Editorial
The Ideal Agile Database
The ideal Agile database needs to be secure, recoverable, transactional, resilient, and versatile enough to allow easy migration paths when you need to delegate tasks elsewhere, for scalability. Sounds like a relational database to Phil Factor.
2017-04-03
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2017-04-03
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What do you do to relax after work?
Is the stuff we do in our off hours truly relaxing or just taking up time?
2022-12-09 (first published: 2017-03-31)
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2021-12-10 (first published: 2017-03-30)
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Big Companies are Improving with DevOps
Steve Jones notes that not just the small, startup, agile companies use DevOps. Nor is it just technology companies.
2017-03-29
50 reads
I'm "working from home"
Phil Factor argues that The serious problems with working from home come not from poor productivity, but when office-based team members seem to prefer to ignore the fact that the remote workers exist.
2017-03-27
162 reads
2021-12-29 (first published: 2017-03-24)
157 reads
I Hate To Send This Email
Steve Jones wonders how many of us have had to send, or will have to send this email.
2021-04-02 (first published: 2017-03-23)
449 reads
2017-03-22
49 reads
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Azure SQL Database MAXDOP
When Azure SQL Database was originally released, the MAXDOP was set to 0 for each new database. In Oct 2025, what is the default value for Azure SQL databases?
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