2026-06-03
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Editorials
Fixing Impostor Syndrome
Lessons on impostor syndrome from a marketer apply to technologists as well.
2026-06-01 (first published: 2022-09-09)
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Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
A Thank You message to the original founds of the PostgreSQL project and members of the community that have been working so hard for 30 years.
2026-05-30
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Bean Counting to Burnout
Do meetings and paperwork take a toll on administrators? Steve draws a comparison to some of the changes in the US healthcare system.
2026-05-29 (first published: 2020-10-14)
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Coping with a working life as an imposter
It is not existing knowledge but the skill of acquiring new knowledge rapidly that will help you overcome imposter syndrome.
2026-05-27 (first published: 2020-09-19)
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Everything I Needed to Know Used to be Found in One Book
Books used to be the source of knowledge, but times have changed.
2026-05-25
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Even When You Know What You're Doing, You Can Screw Up
There I was, walking around Amsterdam, radio in hand (OMG! He's talking about radios again!), automatically transmitting Active Packet Report System (APRS) signals every 90 seconds. Same radio I had used in Chicago a couple of weeks ago and in Poland last week. I was on the correct frequency and, as I say, I had […]
2026-05-23
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The New Software Team
Software teams are changing with AI and this might be an exciting time for developers if they take advantage of the capabilities available.
2026-05-22
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Limit the Blast Radius
AI can go off the rails, as we see in a recent story about an LLM deleting a production database.
2026-05-20
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The Degradation of the Turing Test
Are computers getting smart enough to pass the Turing test or are humans getting worse at representing themselves as intelligent?
2026-05-18 (first published: 2020-10-15)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #199 Invitation: Back to on-prem?
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again! And we’re almost to number 200! T-SQL Tuesday...
Data Skew in Data Engineering: What It Is and How to Fix It
You kick off a distributed job expecting it to finish in minutes — but...
Error Deploying GraphQL in Fabric: dm_exec_describe_first_result_set
A while ago we suddenly had an error while trying to deploy one Fabric...
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Question of the Day
Secure Cached Plans
The DMV, sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, contains rows for each cached plan on an instance. In Azure SQL Database, not every used has rights to every database, as there does exist an instance behind each database. How is security handled for this DMV in Azure?
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