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
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...
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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