Earlier this week, I recorded a talk called “AI: The Good, Bad, and the Future.” I talked about some of the good things that have happened with AI and some of the Bad. But what I really wanted to focus on was the future. I think many of us have heard the two letters AI […]
2026-09-12
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This Friday Steve is looking for those things you wish you didn't have to handle at work. Let us know what tasks you avoid and would rather hand off to others.
2026-09-11
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Lots of organizations use multiple database platforms. Steve notes there is a cost to choosing to allow this.
2026-09-09
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How important is your job to you? Today's guest editorial from Andy Warren asks the question of the professionals out there, some of whom do great work, but don't care about their jobs.
2026-09-07 (first published: 2010-05-20)
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You may not be old, but I sure am. As I travel around to all the different conferences to speak, whether we're talking a dev conference, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL, one of the topics that keeps coming up is age. The age of the organizers. It's mostly the same people putting on events for the […]
2026-09-05
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It's the first week of September, but Steve sees it as the end of summer. It's a time to catch up on things.
2026-09-04
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Today Steve wonders if the data professionals out there measure themselves on the job.
2026-09-02
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Today Steve has a few comments on backups and your ability to get to a restore in the event of an issue with your provider.
2026-08-31
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DBAKevlar disccusses the new product from Perplexity and Nvidia that just shipped on August 25th. If you haven’t been paying attention its goal is businesses whose entire generative AI solution has been what the AI bubble is betting on.
2026-08-29
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2026-08-28
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