I'm not good with time management.  No matter what I am doing I feel I should be doing something else.  This means that I am easily distracted.  The feeling that...

We used to dread environment rebuilds.  Painful, likely to break and time consuming. It hurt.

We are not quite at the stage where it is "click of a button" but are...

In cycling terms there are two terms of disparagement

• All the gear and no idea
• £3K bike, 30 pence legs

In DevOps terms you can have the best software, the most...

To shift everything into the cloud you have to address all those bits of legacy pipework you have in your systems.  You have to understand all those strange data flows...

We have to conduct an annual GDPR audit.  We've found it far easier to make adjusting the GDPR documentation part of the software development lifecycle than trying to perform an...

The upsetting thing about this from a UK tax payer point of view is that this Excel non-solution has costs millions.   There's also an issue with the choice of vendor.

I'm...

First few weeks meetings were far less, now my calendar looks like a losing game of Tetris.

If doctors complain about paperwork you should see what UK teachers have to put...

Worth mentioning the -v switch for the docker run command to get a persistent volume.

-v $HOME/docker/volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data

It will be slightly different for Windows, the code switch above is...

I live near in a small dormitory village (30 minutes cycling) the Peak District National Park in the UK.  If I drive then I've got good routes to some of...

That is something that is really bothering me.

There seems so be so much useful metadata stored and available in SQL Server, but i dont even know where to start...

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I think I have met one 10x developer in my life.

Started learning Apache Cassandra on Monday had a pull request accepted to fix a bug in it in the next...

I feel the compatibility level facility is a technical fix for a human problem.

In the ideal world we would be able to install the latest SQL Server edition an have...

There is clearly quite a range of responses by different companies to COVID.  I have been extremely impressed with my organisation's approach to the pandemic, ongoing communication, attitude from the...

We are discussing what a return to the office might look like and there is an acceptance that WFH is going to play a bigger part of our lives from...

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My first big data project was on a personalisation scoring model for 5 million customers against 250,000+ products and all their attributes combinations.  That was 1.25 trillion data points equating...