Try, Try Again, Until It's Right
A cloud migration for DoorDash interested Steve, primarily because it didn't work, but they were able to back out and try again.
2023-12-15
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Editorials
2023-12-13
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Breaking Biometrics
Fingerprint readers on laptops are shown not to be as secure as they could be, and primarily because the manufacturers haven't done a good job implementing the secure protocols.
2023-12-11
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Love
Love is many a splendored thing. It is also a much-abused word with many different (and twisted) meanings. The type of love I wish to speak about today is not friendship, nor the kind of thing that makes your heart go pitter patter in the springtime, but rather the type of love known as storge, […]
2023-12-09
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Focus on Growth in Your Career
Steve has some advice on how to grow your career by growing your skills and developing deeper knowledge.
2023-12-08
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The Stagnant Career
A stagnant career can be stifling, and it can make you unhappy at work, where you spend a lot of time. Steve has a few thoughts on how to avoid that.
2023-12-06
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Be Careful with Missing Index Requests
Steve reminds people today that the recommendations from execution plans aren't always what you want to use when tuning your database.
2023-12-04
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The Fake Speakers
Someone generated a fake speaker profile for their conference, which Steve finds disturbing.
2023-12-02
525 reads
The Balanced Technical Manager
If you are considering moving into management as a career goal, read today's editorial from Steve, with some advice based on an interesting article from someone with experience at Facebook and Stripe.
2023-12-01
95 reads
A Lack of Privacy in Smart Cars
With new vehicles becoming more and more computerized and controlled, is data privacy an issue?
2023-11-29
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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...
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extended events to spy on our server between 8 and 9 am
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DBCC CHECKIDENT
What is returned as a result set when I run this command without a new seed value?
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