The Apprentice
This Friday Steve Jones asks if we should reconsider the way we train developers and other computer professionals. Give us your opinion this week.
2011-09-09
129 reads
Editorials
Learning for Profit
Today Steve Jones talks about a way to improve your skills, make yourself more marketable for that next job, and perhaps earn some money.
2011-09-08
176 reads
The Robot DBA
Steve Jones talks about the idea of an automated DBA and disputes the notion that it will come to pass anytime soon.
2011-09-07
236 reads
From Vandalism to Serious Crime
It seems that there are new types of hacker attacks, not looking to steal information for profit, but for disclosure as an embarrassment. Steve Jones talks about the potential downsides for DBAs.
2011-09-06
122 reads
Labor Day 2011
It's a holiday in the US today and Steve Jones provides a little entertainment for those people still at work.
2011-09-05
69 reads
Piracy and Agile
Do Agile IT projects have anything to learn from the organizational structures and laws used by pirates? Phil Factor is not convinced.
2011-09-05
113 reads
The Growth of Data Types
This week Steve Jones asks you what you think will make up the majority of your future databases? Will it be numerical data or will some other type come to dominate?
2011-09-02
131 reads
Where Do You Park?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Most people work in an office and need to commute, which brings with it the inevitable fight for parking in many companies. How is it handled for you?
2011-09-01
161 reads
The Special Cloud
Amazon has built a cloud just for the US government. Will we see more specialized clouds in the future that might let us move some of our data to the cloud?
2011-08-31
119 reads
An Investment in Knowledge
Inspired by a quote from Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jones talks about investing in your career.
2011-08-30
257 reads
Blogs
Scooby Dooing Episode 9: The Case of the Artificially Intelligent Villain
Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton...
The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole
By Steve Jones
This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No...
Beyond Pipelines: How Fabric Reinvents Data Movement for the Modern Enterprise
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build...
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Question of the Day
A Common Split
What happens when I run this code:
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(1000) = 'apple, pear, peach' SELECT * FROM STRING_SPLIT(@s, ', ')See possible answers