The Improvement Limit
How much of a difference can you make at a job? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2025-10-13
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How much of a difference can you make at a job? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2025-10-13
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You're going to have to bear with me on this one because my thoughts aren't fully formed. As I'm sure I've mentioned, I'm a little elderly (and you thought I was going to talk about radios). As such, I've seen the death of a few technologies. I may not have shared this widely, but my […]
2025-10-11
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The best way to improve your database performance is with better code. We all know that, but few of us actually end up making those changes.
2025-10-10 (first published: 2017-11-16)
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When you must rollback a deployment of changes, is that a failure of the process? The development effort? Or something else?
2025-10-08 (first published: 2014-03-04)
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When should a DBA get fired? Steve Jones thinks it should be rare and gives you two cases.
2025-10-06 (first published: 2014-03-27)
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The Koi Security team recently uncovered the first known, malicious MCP server in the wild: a package called postmark-mcp, downloaded over 1,500 times per week, that silently BCCs every outgoing email to an attacker-controlled domain. So, what happened? High-level, a lot: The attacker cloned the legitimate Postmark MCP repository, made one small but nefarious change […]
2025-10-04
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2025-10-03
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Adopting a modern development approach brings with it the need to manage PRs, which Steve thinks can be like trouble tickets.
2025-10-01
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2025-09-29
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AI has moved from experimental to operational in record time for many organizations. In industries like fintech, healthcare, and retail where sensitive PII (personally identifiable information) and relational databases are the backbone of daily operations, this innovation speed to adopt AI brings enormous opportunity, but also significant risks
2025-09-27
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Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This...
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