The Last Job
Steve Jones contemplates employment and the future of the last job he'll have. This Friday he asks you if this might be yours.
2014-12-12
163 reads
Editorials
Citizen Programmers
Steve Jones finds the Salesforce platform interesting and notes we have lots of "citizen programmers" doing work with data.
2014-12-11
146 reads
Holiday Struggles
The sporadic schedule of a day or two a week this holiday season has been a struggle for Steve Jones.
2014-12-09
184 reads
Software Projects: the important boring bits
Phil Factor on the sort of boring expertise that will help you thrive as a consultant.
2014-12-08
143 reads
We Still Need Human Judgment
Computers aren't necessarily more infallible than humans, and they aren't necessarily even going to make better decisions. We still need humans in the decision process.
2014-12-08 (first published: 2010-06-23)
199 reads
What Have You Learned Lately?
Have you learned anything new lately? Steve Jones asks the question after an interesting T-SQL Tuesday.
2014-12-04
165 reads
The Value of Code
What's the value of code to your organization? Steve Jones thinks it's much larger than many people believe.
2014-12-02
148 reads
Facebooking Up to Your Social Responsibilities
Phil Factor argues that as terrorists and criminals exploit the new opportunities that open up as technology develops, technologists must work with Governments to ensure thoughtful custodianship of data, and sensitivity towards legitimate privacy.
2014-12-01
92 reads
Your Best Work
Interviewing people is hard to do well. Steve Jones talks about a technique that might help you better choose good employees for your organization.
2014-12-01
145 reads
Personal Development
Steve Jones thinks that a personal development plan is important and talks today a little about how you should build one.
2014-11-28 (first published: 2010-07-14)
801 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
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Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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