Building a Data Center
A data center is a complex beast. Is it worth building and maintaining your own? Steve has a few thoughts on a data center versus a cloud.
2025-02-05
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Hardware
The Rise of Data Centers
There is still a huge demand for data centers, both from cloud vendors and private enterprises.
2025-01-06
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The Invisible Disk
Steve sees disk drives as shrinking to the point of being invisible to most of us.
2024-09-09
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2024-06-17
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Portable Data Storage
Today Steve wonders if the technology for storage and data transfers has superseded the need for portable drives.
2024-01-15
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Building a PC
Steve has a few thoughts on building your own PC to help you with work or your career.
2022-06-10
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2021-04-28
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Will You Touch a Server Again?
Steve doesn't think he will ever work on server class machine again in terms of hardware. He wonders how many of you feel the same.
2021-02-17
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The Database Server Upgrade for Let's Encrypt
Let's Encrypt upgrades their database servers and publishes the details.
2021-02-01
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Data Analysis Without a Server
The ability to analyze lots of data on a workstation can be a way to test things without overloading server systems until you are sure your code works.
2020-08-25
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Blogs
App-Consistent MongoDB Snapshots Across Multiple Pure Storage FlashArrays
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
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A New Word: Dead Reckoning
By Steve Jones
dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would...
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Getting the Schema for Tables
What happens when I run this on SQL Server 2022 in the AdventureWorks2022 database?
SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION (OBJECT_ID(N'Person.Person')) AS [Object Definition]; GOSee possible answers