Hard Data v Gut Feel
Data is more important than gut feel, or at least, Steve Jones thinks it should be more important. Today he talks about using data to support decisions.
2016-01-20 (first published: 2012-07-10)
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Editorials
The DBA Tax
Are you a DBA tax on your company? Or an asset that's worth the cost. Steve Jones talks about trying to be the latter and not the former.
2016-01-19 (first published: 2012-07-09)
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Security Convenience
Security is always a hot topic, and Steve Jones notes that we should be specific when we work with security.
2016-01-15
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Tracking Professional Athletes
Today Steve Jones looks at the use of tracking sensors to gather spatial data on professional athletes for later analysis.
2016-01-14
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2016-01-12
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2016-01-11
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2016-01-11
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2016-01-08
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2016-01-07
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Hacking to Hide
People have hacked the voyage data recorders in ships. Steve Jones thinks this is a fundamental problem in computing systems.
2016-01-05
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Blogs
Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS
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The PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Recap
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It’s Monday. I’ve been home since Fri night, but with a busy weekend, I’m...
Microsoft Post-Quantum Crypto APIs Are Now Generally Available
By Brian Kelley
I mentioned this in my talk on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community...
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The Ending Substring
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