Steve, you are correct that occasional mistakes should not warrant dismissal. There are various forms of a quote that go something like: If you're not making mistakes, then you're not...

A few months back, I was migrating about 4 TB of databases from a datacenter in Atlanta to New Jersey. Across a 1 GigaBit / sec network connection, there were...

My advice to someone getting started in their career, or looking for a career, is don't let others pigeonhole you into a specific role. Instead, think deeply about who you...

When I'm wearing the DBA hat, I really don't comment much at all regarding the application developer's choice of naming convention, because ultimately they are the one's who have to...

... I was faced with this question of delayed gratification recently outside of work. I was playing one of my time wasting games on my phone. I was tempted...

I'd rather focus on normalization of the data model as a whole rather fretting over naming conventions, because there are functional consequences for getting the normalization wrong. But, yes, consistency...

I believe data can help transform the world for the better, but I also believe that at this point in time the public has access to sufficient data to make...