The Black Boxes
The world of machine learning and artificial intelligence are growing. Steve Jones notes this means we need to decide if we can trust the black boxes.
2016-09-26
65 reads
Editorials
What Helps You Learn?
This Friday Steve Jones looks to find out what things help people learn and build skills more readily.
2016-09-23
85 reads
Capture the Flag
A competition among software bots may foretell a vision of the future for software developers.
2016-09-22
92 reads
Why We Need Backups First
This week Steve Jones notes that backups aren't the most important thing for your data. Restores are.
2016-09-19
104 reads
Data Science Education
Data Science is a hot area and one to which quite a few people would like to move. Steve Jones has some thoughts on trying to get certified in this area.
2016-09-15
167 reads
2016-09-14
124 reads
Encryption Keys Matter
Protecting the keys used for encrypion can really matter for companies, and in today's complex world, that can be difficult. Monitoring becomes important to helping here.
2016-09-13
71 reads
Ignoring Database Version Control
Steve Jones thinks version control is important, even for databases.
2016-09-12
148 reads
Teaching a dog to sing
To survive the inevitable downturns in the IT industry, Phil Factor argues that a IT manager needs to take time to maintain technical skills. It is not enough to understand development; you have to be able to do it.
2016-09-12
104 reads
Impressive Accomplishments
What things impress you most about potential candidates. This week Steve Jones asks the question to try and understand what types of activities data professionals might consider.
2016-09-09 (first published: 2013-02-15)
262 reads
Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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