I am in a start up consultancy and have been in other start ups.  A common challenge faced by start ups is when initial business is with the founders network...

Not only does using the same SaaS pricing service as your competitor hurt consumers by creating a market that's indistinguishable from collusion - but it can also put your...

When I used to work for an advertising agency we knew of two competing catalogue retailers who would each almost certainly choose a tool on the basis of whether the...

I had recent experience with this.  A complex data orchestration was doing exactly what it was designed to do, all dashboards and logs said that everything was fine but data...

I used to work for one of the big 3 advertising agencies.  A typical response rate to a direct mail campaign varied around typical figures

• To consumers, around 5%
• To...

Totally agree.  There are a number of technologies that data people use directly or indirectly that I feel I want to consume rather than administer.  I also feel your comment...

This week a friend and colleague was fuming over a lengthy meeting where they were trying to tell someone that the answer provided by CoPilot was wrong.  I've had situations...

Recruiting is expensive both timewise and monetary.  Coming up with a good recruitment methodology is an art as much as it is a science.  I've seen weak interviewees being star...

The last job application I undertook required 2 interviews and then, prior tor the 3rd interview I had  to prepare a 40 minute presentation based on high level and sparse...

The problem with that is that the people looking at the costs start telling you to not run as many queries, or to use less storage, even though that's...

I work for a consultancy and we are expected to have a certain % of staff certified as part of our technology partnership contracts.

When we put out to tender our...

I work for a consultancy and we are expected to have a certain % of staff certified as part of our technology partnership contracts.

When we put out to tender our...

I think financial monitoring of cloud resources needs to be something that DBAs are aware of and participate in but not something that is their sole responsibility.  I think there...

A common theme is that there is a minimum number of people needed for a support rota.  Below that and you risk burn-outs and resignations.

When I was a DBA in a team we shared the on-call rota.  We were given a specific mobile phone when we were on-call.

Senior DBAs would be a 2nd line...