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
162 reads
Editorials
2023-12-13
250 reads
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
162 reads
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
70 reads
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
186 reads
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
192 reads
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
615 reads
The Fake Speakers
Someone generated a fake speaker profile for their conference, which Steve finds disturbing.
2023-12-02
534 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
102 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
186 reads
Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers