I'm quietly optimistic in the data space.

Regardless of the technology of the day the nature of business is that it relies on communication.  Whether that is talking to customers and...

Agree totally.

I had to deal with UK motor data.  The vehicle data has a make, model and variant code as the natural key.  The only problem being that each one...

I insisted on attaching meaningful business comments to DB objects and had a nightly process that generated DB Documentation website using a competitor to Redgate SQLDoc.  This was disparaged as...

From a coding perspective the bits I find most beneficial would equally be done with a decent command line utility if I knew where one was.

I've not used Copilot but do use tools like ChatGPT and Claude. I ask them for help, they don't thrust help upon me.  Whatever happens I don't want an AI...

I went through a management training course and one of the questions was "what is the best bit about being a manager"?

We all agreed that it was seeing the successful...

And here's another one on AI.  My wife is constantly sending me links to stuff on Instagram Reels with people dramatically  blathering on about something.  My usual question is...

David, I have to adamantly disagree with your thought that AI 'has no motivation'.  I think motivation is one of it's greatest dangers.  AI is created by people and...

With AI, I know what it is, I know what it is for, it is a mechanical Turk.  I can forgive its inaccuracies because most of the time it is...

For programming languages we have https://www.codeconvert.ai/ and https://rosettacode.org/

It would be great if there was the equivalent for mapping functionality of various technologies, whether it be wearable tech, digital musical instruments,...

One thing I think may be leading to the reduction of Ransomware is the reduction in Email as the form of communication.  Slack, MS Teams (and similar) are my primary...

I've seen excessive parameters being requested as a result of badly configured ORMS.  The exception I can remember is a table that got too wide and stopped working.  It had...

One of the downsides of a Polyglot DB world is that having worked out how to do a large deployment reliably for a particular DB platform you end up having...

Years ago the company I worked for did a set of Saturday boot camps.  We were introduced to the very basics of Linux.

About a decade ago I did the equivalent...

Jeff Moden called it a Consensus Engine, which I thought was a brilliant description.

It's pretty much at peak hype in the hype cycle.  It is genuinely useful, just not the...