Ethics
Today we have an editorial reprinted from April 3, 2006 as Steve is on vacation. Ethics are often just as bad at the top of our companies as they are at the bottom. Steve Jones comments today on how this affects IT.
2011-06-06
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Editorials
Lessons Learned Pay Off
This week Steve Jones looks at a few notes that show employers are wising up overall about certifications and the value of real world skills.
2011-06-06
156 reads
A Live Node
Today we have an editorial from March 29, 006 as Steve is on vacation. Today Steve talks about the problems of constantly being distracted and not focusing on one thing.
2011-06-03
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A Note to My Fellow Application Developers about Knowing Our Limits
Today we have a guest editorial from Chris O’Connor as Steve is on vacation. Today Chris talks about the responsibilities of application developers in safeguarding the data when there is no DBA.
2011-06-02
187 reads
The Care of Data
Security is a big concern with data, especially when there is another company involved. Steve Jones notes today that cloud vendors need to beef up their work in this area.
2011-06-01
515 reads
The Ad Hoc Change
Almost every DBA will be asked to change data in production at some point. Too often we don't have the tools to allow users to correct errors, but when you make changes, Steve Jones reminds you that you need to be careful and still have a process.
2011-05-31
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2011-05-30
79 reads
The Backup Passwords
Today Steve Jones asks how you handle those passwords across time for backups in this week's Friday poll.
2011-05-27
189 reads
Greed Is Good (for IT)
Can greedy executives be good for IT? Steve Jones thinks so and gives us a few reasons today.
2011-05-26
210 reads
Treat People Like People
Steve Jones thinks that the Millennials have the right approach to work. There are many things that are more important than money.
2011-05-25
296 reads
Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
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Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
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I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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