Going Green in Software Development
Today Steve Jones talks about the impact of better software programming on the energy use in your company's data center.
2011-11-07
95 reads
Editorials
Never offend a captive audience
Write what you choose to when the reader can, in turn, choose not to read your work; but when you are writing about Technology, you have a captive audience. They need to read your work to keep abreast of the technology. Don't gratuitously offend them. It is not the action of a gentleman, D____it!
2011-11-07
113 reads
ETL
Today we have an editorial that was originally published on Aug 31, 2006 as Steve is traveling at DevConnections. It still seems relevant, so answer the poll this week.
2011-11-04
207 reads
Laptop Boy Scouts
This editorial was originally published on Jan 10, 2007. Steve is at DevConnections, so it is being republished. This piece talks about laptop security when you are working in a public place.
2011-11-03
84 reads
Password Help
Today we have an editorial that was originally published on Oct 9, 2006. Steve Jones talks about the issues of turnover, passwords, and security.
2011-11-02
110 reads
Doubly Wrong
Today we have an editorial that was originally published on Nov 7, 2006 as Steve is at DevConnections. This one talks about SPAM and security.
2011-11-01
70 reads
Gold in the Execution Plan hills
There's more information hidden behind those graphical plans than you might first suspect.
2011-10-31
219 reads
Happy Halloween 2011
It's Halloween day, the night for dressing up in costume and being a little silly. Hopefully it's also a fun day without anything going wrong for you at work.
2011-10-31
68 reads
Employee Slurping
This editorial was originally published on Oct 21, 2006. It is being re-run as Steve is out at SQL in the City today. This one talks about the security of USB devices and the potential problems of employees copying data.
2011-10-28
171 reads
Virtualization for Security
This editorial was originally published on Nov 7, 2006. It is being re-run as Steve is at SQL in the City today. Today Steve talks about security using virtualization.
2011-10-27
49 reads
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Getting the Schema for Tables
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