The Intelligence Cloud
More cloud talk today as the Air Force is building a new intelligence sharing system in the cloud? Why the cloud? Is the cloud really better?
2011-05-02
260 reads
Editorials
Temporary Indexes
Temporary indexes can speed up processes that run periodically in your applications. This Friday Steve Jones asks how many of you use temporary indexes and how you do so.
2011-04-29
574 reads
When To Hire a DBA
When should you hire a DBA? Always, of course! Actually Steve Jones doesn't have an answer, but he does talk about why a DBA can help you.
2011-04-28
306 reads
Showing Its Age
Computer Systems are aging and as companies try to save money by extending their lifetimes, are we going to see more issues?
2011-04-27
175 reads
Less Pay, More Convenience
Steve Jones talks telecommuting today as a recent survey shows that a third of IT professionals would take less pay to work away from the office.
2011-04-26
214 reads
Cam-Graph
A new project from Microsoft Research has Steve Jones interested. It deals with large data sets to perform graphical modeling. The storage mechanism has Steve Jones interested.
2011-04-25
104 reads
Life is Short
Life is short, and Steve Jones reminds us to live for today, even as we invest in ourselves for the future.
2011-04-25
329 reads
Happy Easter 2011
It's Good Friday and the Easter holiday weekend with a number of countries having a bank holiday. Steve Jones is on vacation and providing us with a blooper reel for today.
2011-04-22
90 reads
Saying Thank You
After a bad experience traveling, Steve Jones stops to recognize that despite a possible computer bug, he still recognizes that the programmers building web sites aren't making mistakes on purpose and deserve a thank you for their work.
2011-04-21
173 reads
The Mentoring Experiment
Have you ever wanted a mentor? Do you think that your career would benefit from having one? Steve Jones talks about a new experiment that he is putting in place with Andy Warren that looks to build a mentoring framework.
2011-04-20
273 reads
Blogs
Enterprise AI Operating Rhythm – Top 5 practices for 2026
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Stop Being Surprised by Your Azure Bill: Use Budgets
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Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
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The Max PK Length
If I create a multiple column Primary Key constraint, what is the most number of bytes I can include in the constraint?
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