Top of Your Profession
How do you determine if you're at the top of your profession? Andy Warren has a few thoughts today.
2024-01-19
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Editorials
Learning NoSQL
NoSQL is an option for a database platform and Steve wonders if you can discuss and debate the use of NoSQL for your business partners? Or are you going to learn more? He is.
2024-01-17
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Portable Data Storage
Today Steve wonders if the technology for storage and data transfers has superseded the need for portable drives.
2024-01-15
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Play To Your Strengths
I really enjoy playing with radios [ed: we know, you won't shut up about it]. Something as simple as checking in to a local net (basically saying hi to a bunch of people on the radio) is fun. However, there's so much more to it. In the last few weeks I've been testing a new […]
2024-01-13
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Continuity Across Restarts
A cloud version of Aurora MySQL has added support for the buffer pool to survive restarts of the database engine. Steve thinks that's an interesting technology, which could be helpful.
2024-01-12
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Re-Evaluating the Cloud
An update from 37 Signals/Basecamp shows their expatriation from the cloud has been a success. Worth reading before you make too many moves to the cloud.
2024-01-10
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Advice for Business
Some advice from Steve and Sam Altman, whether you work in business or want to build one.
2024-01-08
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Has AI Changed Software Development?
Generative AI is everywhere, but especially in software development. Is it helping us? Steve has a few thoughts.
2024-01-06
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Projects To Showcase Your Skills
A good way to showcase your skills is by working through and documenting a project and solution. Steve notes today that this is important in today's hiring market and asks for sample projects you might suggest for others.
2024-01-05
495 reads
Fixing Poor Programming Practices
Today Steve has a few stories of how he's fixed poor programming practices and asks you to share your own.
2024-01-03
332 reads
Blogs
Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
Truncate Table Pitfalls
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
dataMinds Connect 2025 – Slides & Scripts
You can find all the session materials for the presentation “Indexing for Dummies” that...
Forums
extended events to spy on our server between 8 and 9 am
Hi, our peer who owns a remote mysql server from which we extract warehouse...
Restore Job fails in Replication
Dear Folks, Restore jobs in my SQL2022 Standard edition replication were failing on a...
visual studio seems to lose "provider" on pkg imports
hi, just to get this part out of the way, if my intended target...
Question of the Day
Vector Datatype Dimensions
The new vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 requires a number dimension parameter. What is the maximum number of dimensions supported?
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