I'm not ready to retire, but I am definitely in the market for retirement planning.  I've had conversations with my Dad and others who have retired, and they all say...

Regardless of what the laws may be in various countries, the application of the law is a retrospective event.

If it is against the law to share data outside of the...

Thinking back to pre-COVID, a lot of gaps in the direction given by managers were filled in by more experienced team members.  They were like old sergeants, anticipating orders from...

I've asked and got a raise once in my career.  In terms of knowing my job, working hard, and meeting objectives, etc, I knew that wasn't up for debate.  I...

We hired AI specialists.  One of the things they are tasked with doing (at a bare minimum) is internal lunch and learn sessions.  The gap I am seeing behind the...

The gist was that Hadoop was going to make data warehouses obsolete.

I thought the idea behind English Query was going to be huge.  Looking at BI Genie and AI, perhaps...

That's 2 of your April Fools' jokes that have turned out to be prescient!

I've been thinking about per-core licensing concerning software, not just SQL Server.  I understand that software companies...

Firstly, what does a carrot look like to you?  A money-oriented person may gain motivation from the promise of a bonus.  A people-oriented person may gain motivation from the enthusiastic...

I feel one of the things that has been a benefit to me, to making me more "tolerant" and receptive to others, is the fact that I haven't always been...

I've been thinking about Shadow IT recently.  I've inherited a few things that were built by Shadow IT and have a love-hate relationship with them.

On the plus side, the functionality...

We've had some success with downloading LLMs into our infrastructure, so their interactions are private to us.  Of course, this means that tuning them and configuring them to lessen hallucinations...

A colleague asked where the boundary was between AI and ML.  It's a good question, and I don't think there is a good answer to it.

Negativity sells newsprint.  We are...

Earlier this year, I uninstalled most of the social media apps and reduced the amount of TV I was watching.  I have always been a reader, but that had tailed...

If I had to credit one person with the success in my career, it would be Steve.

Nice article.

In many ways, I feel it is a great shame that the full-text index engine was allowed to stagnate.  If that had had some TLC over the years perhaps...