Job Interviews: What is Normalization?
Do you know how to answer normalization questions in an interview? Steve Jones gives you a few ideas and recommends you brush up on your knowledge.
2022-05-20 (first published: 2018-01-11)
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Editorials
The General Database Platform
It seems that many people who choose NoSQL platforms still need relational features. Steve speculates on why.
2022-05-18
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2022-05-16 (first published: 2018-01-15)
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Will Hosted Services Take Your Job?
This week I was honored to be able to attend, and present a session at, SQLDay in Wroclaw Poland. I fell in love with Poland the very first time I attended this event, so I look forward to any time I can go again. This year, Pavel Potasinski presented the keynote: The Evolution of the […]
2022-05-14
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2022-05-13
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Living Up To Your Word
Steve feels it is not only important to keep your word, but communicate clearly what you mean to others.
2022-05-11
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Crazy Interview Questions
Interviews are always a challenge, but sometimes there are crazy questions. We can do better, especially in terms of how we evaluate the answer to a question.
2022-05-09
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Finding New Employment
You can find new employment with a little work and choose the best job for you.
2022-05-07
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2022-05-06
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Project Zero for Better Security
Project Zero from Google aims to study zero day vulnerabilities. Steve hopes it leads to better security.
2022-05-04
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Blogs
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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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