Quality Provides Traction/Velocity
Quality is a driver for productivity. Or so say I. What do you think.
2017-02-14
118 reads
Editorial
Problems With Database Problems
The GitLab crisis has Steve Jones thinking about two things: competence and care.
2017-02-13
124 reads
The Second Career
From a well-built cockney who knew how to avoid wheel clamps, to an ex-member of an elite anti-riot unit, some of the best DBAs have a surprising diversity of skills and experiences, according to Phil Factor.
2017-02-13
116 reads
Moving Through Five Years
An updated editorial. The five years are almost up for the prediction that IT departments would be eliminated. Read Steve Jones thoughts on where we are today.
2017-02-10
122 reads
Why Devops? For Better Security
DevOps is supposed to help us build better software, faster. Steve Jones looks at one of the other benefits: security.
2017-02-09
117 reads
2017-02-08
173 reads
Would You Still Love Linux If Windows Was Free?
A guest editorial today looks at the OS debate: Windows v Linux.
2022-03-07 (first published: 2017-02-07)
459 reads
A View of the Cloud
Today Steve Jones looks at how we can better build software by considering the cloud.
2017-02-06
81 reads
Close Encounters of the CEIP Kind
Microsoft's Customer Experience Improvement Program for SQL Server: once easy to avoid, now hard to ignore, but Rodney Landrum sees an upside.
2017-02-06
1,595 reads
Your Favorite Feature that Needs Work
This week Steve Jones asks what parts of SQL Server would you improve and why.
2017-02-03
84 reads
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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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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