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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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
74 reads
There is still a huge demand for data centers, both from cloud vendors and private enterprises.
2025-01-06
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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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Today Steve wonders if the technology for storage and data transfers has superseded the need for portable drives.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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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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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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Let's Encrypt upgrades their database servers and publishes the details.
2021-02-01
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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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The other day I came across an interesting repo on github, KubeDiagrams. What this...
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I have an always on availability group of 3 servers (1 primary and 1...
I have this code:
SELECT CHOOSE (MONTH (saledate), 'Winter', 'Winter', 'Spring', 'Spring', 'Spring', 'Summer', 'Summer', 'Summer', 'Autumn', 'Autumn', 'Autumn', 'Autumn') AS x FROM ProductSales;What is a good name for the column alias? See possible answers