Making New Infrastructure Investments
One of the areas where the cloud may have the most impact is with new infrastructure improvements. Steve Jones talks about a few companies that are using the cloud in different ways.
2012-05-24
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Editorials
The TCO of the Cloud
When is the cloud right for your databases? Steve Jones talks about some metrics and ways you can measure your usage to determine when it makes sense.
2012-05-22
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Continuous Releases
The idea of continuous development, integration and release can be a way to get your software in use by clients quicker. Steve Jones talks about releases, and some benefits you might get.
2012-05-21
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Password Handling
A system administrator can set a good example with the passwords they give to users or a bad example. Which one do you set?
2012-05-18
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Do Interviews Work?
Interviews are the way we primarily make hiring decisions but as Steve Jones notes, we don't really end up doing a very good job of picking good employees in many cases.
2012-05-17
327 reads
What is Big Data?
The definition of Big Data is rather murky, despite all the press and attention given to it. Steve Jones talks about what Big Data means for relational databases.
2012-05-16
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Self Service SQL
Self service in IT is something Steve Jones likes, but it doesn't solve all problems, and might end up creating more issues.
2012-05-15
240 reads
Is Software Engineering Dead?
Software engineering is seen as a dead end career choice, at least by some people. Steve Jones disagrees.
2012-05-14
436 reads
Time for Your Career
This week Steve Jones wants to know if you can find time for your professional development. Regularly improving your skills is an important part of your career in technology, and the poll this weeks asks what time you can make for improvement.
2012-05-11
221 reads
Teambuilding and Bonding
Steve Jones attended a day out from the Red Gate offices recently and he talks about the value of those experiences.
2012-05-10
168 reads
Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
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Multiple Sequence Values
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