Challenge yourself to find new tools and use them in your work. That's today's message from Steve Jones. (This editorial was originally published on Aug 5, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is away on the SQL in the City US 2012 tour.)
2012-10-01
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Index fragmentation can certainly cause performance problems, but should it really dictate the way we design our clustered indexes?
2012-10-01
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Companies may look to outsource security in order to take advantage of experts' skills at a lower price. What will that mean for data professionals?
2012-09-27
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Today Steve Jones talks about pair programming and when it might make sense for data professionals.
2012-09-26
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When working on a project, you have to make trade-offs. Unfortunately, some managers don't realize this. Steve Jones says we need to help them understand that doing things the right way, and working with trade-offs, makes for better systems.
2012-09-25
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The forecast for IT work is growing. That's good for those of us working in the field.
2012-09-24
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If we rewrite the coding rules, will software be more secure? Steve Jones thinks it might and that we should be constantly looking to change the techniques, patterns, and skills we have.
2012-09-24
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This Friday Steve Jones wants you to have some fun and compare yourself to an athlete or media figure, or even a fictional character.
2012-09-21
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Worms have been around a long time in computer systems. However changes in the global policies of governments and the possible retaliation for cyber warfare should have DBAs concerned.
2012-09-20
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2012-09-19
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Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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