Bare Metal
Today Steve talks about bare metal servers and virtual machines. He wonders if any of you still run bare metal.
2023-07-10
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Editorials
The Data Professional Social Graph
Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hear a keynote by Vik Fearing at Swiss PGDay 2023. He talked about Property Graphs and the Graph Query Language (not to be confused with GraphQL), a recent addition to the SQL:2023 standard. The discussion was mostly theoretical in nature because only Oracle has a current implementation […]
2023-07-08
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2023-07-07 (first published: 2018-09-13)
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Fitting Into RAM
Will your database fit into RAM? Steve Jones asks you to think about the possibility.
2023-07-05 (first published: 2018-09-21)
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The Changing Landscape of Community
We have a guest editorial today from Mala Mahadevan on the changing data community.
2023-07-03
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Keep Sharing
I was given a little reward the other day. My son came home telling me that the manufacturing company he works for wants to build some custom test equipment using Arduino-style controller chips. I've been experimenting, pretty darned lightly so far, with these over the last year. He starts asking me about which controllers I […]
2023-07-01
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Planning for a Bad Day
If you found out you were being laid off, would you be ready? Steve thinks you should be lightly planning for this to happen.
2023-06-30
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Securing All Your Connections
Microsoft is recommending more security for SQL Servers, including dev and test instances. Do you agree this is a good idea? Would you implement this?
2023-06-28
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Concurrency Challenges Around Schema Changes
A post on distributed systems and how schema changes are handled caught Steve's eye. See if you agree with how he thinks this should work.
2023-06-26
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2023-06-24
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Blogs
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DBCC CHECKIDENT
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