Healthy Work Habits
Today Steve Jones talks a little about the work environment for IT workers. We ought to pay attention and ensure we are taking care of ourselves.
2012-01-26
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Editorials
No Cloud for Stack Exchange
The use of cloud computing isn't in the plans for the Stack Exchange network of sites? Steve Jones thinks they have a pretty cool reason not to use the cloud and he thinks you ought to have a similar view at work.
2012-01-25
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Back to Vegas
The DevConnections conference in the spring of 2012 is in Las Vegas, and Steve Jones is glad to be going.
2012-01-24
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Jiggly Code
There should be some method to your madness when fixing code. At least, that's what Linus Torvalds thinks and Steve Jones agrees.
2012-01-23
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Thoughts on Survival
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Are you in a survival job? Read Andy's thoughts and let us know.
2012-01-20
180 reads
Better Than Batman
Steve Jones praises Bill Gates today, and the work he is doing to make the world a better place.
2012-01-19
183 reads
The Virtual Lab
Today Steve Jones talks about the need for a lab for each of us, and a few ways you can build one.
2012-01-17
231 reads
A Leader
Today's editorial was originally reprinted on Jun 17, 2007. It is being re-run as it is a holiday in the US. Today Steve Jones looks at Jonthan Schwartz, the former CEO of SUN who took over from the founder, Scott McNealy.
2012-01-16
74 reads
DBAs and the Career-Life Balance
DBAs always tend to face many difficulties in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Brad McGehee encourages some debate on the best strategies to make this work, in the face of long working hours, and the desire to contribute fully to the SQL Server community.
2012-01-16
498 reads
WWBOD
This Friday's poll asks you to tell us what you'd do if you won the lottery. Is there something that you'd rather be doing than your current job? Dream a little and let us know.
2012-01-13
180 reads
Blogs
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
Forums
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
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