I work with Snowflake, where the billing is based on compute per minute, with the increasing warehouse sizes having a higher multiplication factor.

If we double the warehouse size, the price...

I worked on a project where the company had 2 big vendor contracts.  The sort where you sign up for 10 years for a figure that would keep someone in...

I worked at a company where the data analysts were paid significantly below market rate.

This became a growing staff retention problem, but HR rules made bulk pay rises for existing...

My youngest son was an engineer for a heritage railway company.  That was a varied job with tight deadlines and often required thinking fast on his feet.

My middle son is...

I recently took a series of Tableau TDS files and extracted their metadata in a form similar to INFORMATION_SCHEMA. This revealed what the schema, table and attributes were in the...

I found the readability tools in the article editor for this site useful, so my prompt is;

Suggest edits to my document to improve the Flesch reading score with a minimum...

I was fortunate that a previous employer sent me on the SQL Server 6.5 training courses (Admin and Developer).

I've used many DB platforms since, but SQL Server remains my favourite. ...

Years ago (pre-AI), I had a conversation with a Solutions Architect who had come up through the ranks of Java development.

They had joined a company where architects had to be...

The company I used to work for had 3 offices. The office I used to work for was a 45-mile each-way drive, and I never thought twice about it.  The...

I can remember Buck Woody describing the cloud as somebody else's computer.  I sometimes think that someone else is Don Vito Corleone.

37 Signals wrote about their repatriation from the...

In the past year, I've reconnected with some ex-colleagues from decades ago whom I thought I'd never see again.

It has been both a surprise and a pleasure.

I asked Claude to investigate a hunch about a code base and catalogue the results.  I could have done this manually, but it would have taken days, if not weeks,...

I'm watching a serverless cloud data warehouse issue at the moment, where the data is growing naturally, and the costs are slowly creeping up because the time to process is...

When I was in my 20s, I worked with a bloke who had retired twice, got bored twice and gone back to work each time.  He was full of wisdom. ...

For me, AI isn't the problem; it's the straw that breaks the donkey's back. The amount and size of change that has happened in the past few years is phenomenal,...