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Robin Sharma said, "Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy." After all, you always get what you measure, and if managers are looking for signs...
August 27, 2025 at 1:11 pm
Yeah, Hadoop was touted as the litmus test if a business would survive: "Companies will be dead in 3-5 years if they don't move to Big Data!" That was just...
August 18, 2025 at 12:19 pm
As an old salt myself, I love a good sea story! That one does not surprise me in the least.
Back in the mainframe days, all sorts of tricks were used...
July 14, 2025 at 1:52 pm
Steve, you mentioned that VS Code supports notebooks, but will it support SQL as well as Python? That was the part about ADS that I so enjoyed.
February 16, 2025 at 2:52 am
While I do not use ADS for development purposes, I do like the notebook aspect and its ability to connect to Postgres. I found the notebook interface an excellent tool...
February 12, 2025 at 5:42 am
This one caught me off guard as I was thinking of a stored procedure instead of a function. Good one, Steve!
December 18, 2024 at 6:24 am
I really like the "printer friendly" versions so I can "print" articles to PDF for later reference. That way, I can store articles in a directory of my own structure...
October 4, 2024 at 12:59 pm
When I interview people, the main thing I look for is an aptitude for learning and applying. Throughout my career, I only came prepared with a few skills absolutely required...
September 4, 2024 at 4:11 pm
I'm also one of the old-timers who got a Computer Science degree in the 1980s. I started programming on green screens in FORTRAN-77 on PDP-11 minicomputers, learned IBM 360 Assembler...
August 23, 2024 at 3:10 pm
Yep, that's what I was thinking about. Thanks for clarifying! 🙂
I've had my head embedded in Postgres for the last few years. It's not surprising something got pushed out in...
February 15, 2024 at 2:22 am
In times past, using varchar without a length defaulted to 30 characters. Did that change?
February 14, 2024 at 8:04 pm
I learned something new today about window functions! Nice!! 🙂
November 29, 2023 at 7:18 pm
From one perspective, it really doesn't matter which method you choose as long as you're consistent. However, if you choose pluralism, it becomes difficult to maintain consistency.
For example, I have...
November 17, 2023 at 3:45 pm
That's a good point and worth pursuing.
August 14, 2022 at 7:45 pm
I just upgraded to the latest version and it has the same functionality. I thought perhaps it had to do with an automatic switch to the results pane, but that...
August 12, 2022 at 7:51 pm
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