The Career Bucket List
Steve Jones asks you to look forward in your career, perhaps setting goals that move you forward.
2017-08-25
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Editorials
2017-08-24
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2017-08-23
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Jumping Ahead
There are times when you look back and times when you look forward in your career. Sometimes, however, we might try to push forward too fast.
2017-08-22
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2017-08-21
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Responsibility to Learn
“I would educate myself, and that I would never stop educating myself. It was my responsibility to keep learning.” Who said that? Albert Einstein? Da Vinci? Stephen Hawking? None of the above. That statement came from the Demon of the rock band KISS, Gene Simmons. If a rock & roll legend knows that it’s on […]
2017-08-21
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2017-08-18
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Opinions and Votes
When we look to improve software, we are often expressing our opinion on which items need to be handled first. It's helpful to keep in mind that it's an opinion being expressed, and not a vote, no matter how much it is solicited by a company.
2017-08-17 (first published: 2013-08-19)
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2017-08-16
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Hiring Heterogeneously
Hiring a diverse group of people can make your team work better. Steve Jones has a few thoughts today.
2017-08-15 (first published: 2013-07-22)
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Blogs
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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A Full Shutdown
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Question of the Day
OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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