Surface Book
Steve Jones is looking for a new laptop. Perhaps. Read on to see what he wants in a machine.
2016-01-04
185 reads
Editorial
The SQLite alternative to NoSQL
Phil factor argues that if you are within the SQL and relational mindset, there is no good technical reason to have to change, since SQLite takes care of all the small stuff and the new breed of NewSQL takes care of the jelly-masses of unstructured data.
2016-01-04
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2016-01-01
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2015-12-31
103 reads
Is Change Coming?
In the final Database Weekly of 2015, Steve Jones looks at a CIO's column on workplace change.
2015-12-28
116 reads
Correct Old Mistakes
We all make mistakes, but it's important that we revise our code to correct them over time.
2015-12-24
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2015-12-23
194 reads
2015-12-21
313 reads
Are We Suckers?
This week Steve Jones wonders if we work too much. Do we give more to our employers than they give to us?
2019-06-11 (first published: 2015-12-18)
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2015-12-17
220 reads
Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;