I feel it is a lazy filter for "are they capable of studying unsupervised".

I've heard...

My career in data started because I (naively) thought that I would better understand human behaviour by collecting and analyzing data.  Nearly 40 years on I understand far less than...

I feel that your most needed confidence is that needed for you to ask questions when you are not sure about something.

One of my biggest regrets is in not having...

I think I read in a Daniel Pink book that we need 3 things to be happy

• To feel we are achieving something
• To feel that what we achieving is...

Over the past decade my role has changed from DBA to Data Engineer.  Put bluntly, I don't think I could manually execute a deployment  of my stack alone, certainly not...

The majority of what I do is in the cloud.  A substantial number of what is exposed to me as data sources is in some form of cloud bucket.

What I...

Admirable restraint there Jeff.  The temptation for "P-Sept" or "P7" must have...

7 years on things have moved on.  Human code reviews are hugely inefficient, inconsistent and prone to errors.

Collaborative design and design reviews are useful because they set you on the...

I'm not worried about AI per se but I am worried the following scenarios

• People using it as a crutch rather than a leg up
• People not realising their responsibilities...

I don't think we'd get an answer from AWS as to how many of the SQL Server RDS's are on Linux.  AWS have their own flavour of Linux too.  For...

The cloud vendors all have their version of the Well Architected Framework.  I recommend that you read about it before you start implementing anything in the cloud.

For a moment I thought this was an editorial for consultants!

We have the Mac/Windows divide which is a bump in the road for thick clients.  For me the beauty of...

Its important to remember that you have to want them, they have to want you.  Just like any other relationship.

In the UK, demand for tech jobs is strong so the...

I'm not sure I agree with the list in the article.  Having seen ChatGPT responses to questions I can see a place for an eternally patient incident management AI trained...

More than a decade ago the company I was working with were trying to adopt DevOps and Agile ways of working.  As a team of DBAs we were wrestling with...