PVPs
Today Steve Jones talks about those PVPs, private virtual properties, that your company may own. There are challenges with maintaining these items that show the technology field's immaturity.
2013-12-12
78 reads
Editorials
What Counts as Work - in Software Development
Bill explores the consequences of people not seeing the value in doing things that are crucial to the success of projects.
2013-12-11
549 reads
The 2013 Tribal Awards
The inaugural 2013 Tribal Awards kick off today and Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2013-12-09
120 reads
What is a Database Administrator today?
Today we have a guest editorial from Jim Youmans that asks "what does it mean to be a DBA today?"
2013-12-06
406 reads
Competition or Cooperation
Would you rather work with people, or compete with them? Steve Jones has comments on the Microsoft Stack Ranking system that seems to encourage the latter.
2013-12-04
161 reads
Going over their heads: IT Decisions
Phil factor points out that Marketing people who appeal directly to enterprise CIOs are generally wasting their time, and are better off convincing IT people in general.
2013-12-02 (first published: 2013-11-02)
155 reads
Is Your Data Relational?
An RDBMS is a good fit for many database problems, perhaps as Steve Jones thinks, the best fit for most. However NoSQL systems have a place, we're just not sure where.
2013-12-02
232 reads
The Abstract DBA
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Today Andy talks about his changing role as a DBA and how many tasks he doesn't need to handle anymore.
2013-11-29
216 reads
2013-11-28
101 reads
Visitor Parking
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. There are often issues with how we get along with each other at work. Andy asks how you might handle a tough decision over a simple problem.
2013-11-27
177 reads
Blogs
The end of an era – why I chose not to renew my MVP
By DataOnWheels
Two years ago, two things happened within a few days of each other. I...
PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script
By gbargsley
This is it. The final chapter of PowerShell Strikes Back. Over the past four...
Claude Desktop
By Arun Sirpal
Claude is more than a chat window. The desktop experience includes structured workspaces, generated...
Forums
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Ephemeral Model: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Unraveling the Mysteries of the...
QUOTENAME Behavior
Comments posted to this topic are about the item QUOTENAME Behavior
Running script without having permission to Function
Good Morning. I have a T-SQL Script which has been developed to execute a...
Question of the Day
QUOTENAME Behavior
I use QUOTENAME() like this in code?
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(20) = 'Steve Jones' SELECT QUOTENAME(@s, '>')What is returned? See possible answers