Serious Hacking
The biggest government hack ever occurred recently. At least until the next one happens.
2019-03-19 (first published: 2015-10-20)
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Editorial
Bad Management
Bad managers are everywhere, but we can improve and help them with some ideas from other companies. That's if we, as an organization, value our staff.
2019-03-21 (first published: 2015-10-19)
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On Learning from Experience and Misfortune
Phil Factor on learning from mistakes. Preferably other people's.
2015-10-19
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The Reality of Data Governance
Uncovering how the data 'works' in a business is harder than you might think. You can't get this knowledge second-hand from the IT department. You have to speak to the business at large. However, many people are fearful of the 'bod from IT' and the change that their IT initiatives will bring.
2015-10-12
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Deploying tech to the cloud
There is a world of difference between technology originating in or designed for the cloud and technology that predates but can run in the cloud.
2015-10-12
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Contract to Hire
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at the way some companies look to hire new workers.
2015-10-09
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2019-03-28 (first published: 2015-10-07)
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2015-10-06
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What Can You Do?
Security alerts and concerns are serious, but that doesn't mean that everyone will treat them that way.
2015-10-05
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What's a Code Smell?
Poor patterns and practices are code smells. Steve Jones notes we have plenty in T-SQL.
2023-03-22 (first published: 2015-10-05)
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Blogs
A Cloud Dependency Failure from Amazon
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Deploying AI in logistics (the unfiltered version)
A conversation with Jan Laš, CIO at HOPI, about what deploying a data agent...
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Invitation: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
It's time for T-SQL Tuesday #198! This month's topic is change detection. The post T-SQL...
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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