Is there a Difference in Virtual Events?
Steve wonders if any of you see much of a difference between any of the virtual events taking place today.
2020-12-09
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Editorials
Practice Your Skills with the Advent of Code
The annual Advent of Code challenge is underway, and you can use it to help grow your career.
2020-12-08
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Seeking Growth
Today Steve notes that we often don't have all the knowledge or information we need, but we can work to acquire it.
2020-12-07
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A Technology Collapse
Today Steve looks at legacy systems and the challenges they pose as we try to adapt them to new requirements.
2020-12-05
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Your Favorite IDE
SSMS is, well, it's what we mostly have from Microsoft. It's been around a long time, but it is getting regularly released. There are new versions about every quarter, and there are bug fixes and minor enhancements. Azure Data Studio appears to be where Microsoft would like most of us to move, but I, and […]
2020-12-04
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Catching Minor Issues
Can you catch minor code changes that might cause issues? Steve advocates for more testing to ensure you can.
2020-12-03
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Completely Encrypted Data
Do we care or worry if our databases need to handle encrypted data? Steve has a few thoughts about why we may or may not be concerned.
2020-12-02
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Increasing the Accuracy of Data We Rely On
GPS data is used by many applications. Steve notes that managing data like this might be hard inside organizations.
2020-12-01
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Delivering Patches Quickly
Tesla updates their cars over the air while many other companies require you to move slow and visit a dealer. Steve thinks we can be more like Tesla as developers if we move to DevOps.
2020-11-30
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Bad career advice from a 14 year old
I was having a conversation with my 14-year-old grandson Thomas the other day. He was telling me that is signed up to take a programming class in school next term and sees a future career in technology. He loves playing video games, so maybe developing them would be a good choice. He also was thinking […]
2020-11-28
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers