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Man reading the comments and editorial here was a blast from the past. Just looking at the price difference of a 2.5TB SSD from then ($25k per the editorial) to...
August 18, 2026 at 11:57 am
I saw a meme this morning that rather fits with some of the editorial...
The "Museum of Meaningless Metrics," with the curator standing by a display saying "Our newest exhibit." The...
August 12, 2026 at 1:16 pm
One of the problems with letting an "AI" make the sort of decisions as the article listed is, the "AI" is no better than GIGO. Sure, you could craft your...
August 7, 2026 at 5:29 pm
Well, the building I work in was constructed back around 1941-42 or so and I'm pretty sure the windows are still the originals (they OPEN!) which means they seal about...
July 16, 2026 at 6:05 pm
Well this is shaping up to be a fun end-of-the-week...
Wildfires up in Ontario, Canada, are sending their smoke down here to Michigan, resulting in it looking foggy in the Detroit...
July 16, 2026 at 1:45 pm
At my job we're in the midst of what we suspect is a "feed ALL OF THE DATA to an AI" project. The reason we only suspect is that we...
July 15, 2026 at 11:07 am
thx jasona.work. by backward compatibilty i meant that flavor that we used to set explicitly. its been a long time but as i recall you can set it manually...
July 9, 2026 at 6:23 pm
thx jasona.work. so you are saying that if both the dev and prod are backward compatible to version xxxx, newer features in the dev's version will still work? features...
July 8, 2026 at 11:39 pm
The problem is, while a newer version might report a particular command is "deprecated," that doesn't mean it's not going to work (your example of CONCATENATE, for instance.) Where the...
July 8, 2026 at 4:46 pm
... , I've just reached a point where, if I won the lottery tonight, I'd be hard pressed to decide between "keep working, secure...
June 9, 2026 at 2:26 pm
I've finally started looking seriously at what it's going to take for me to have an enjoyable retirement and finding that between some work-politics things and the push-push-push to AI...
June 9, 2026 at 11:00 am
Just a heads up for Steve Jones, the links to comment on the editorial from today "Would You Retire Rather Than" aren't working.
And I was all set to comment. 🙂
June 8, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Honestly, because from the sound of your post you're just going to be creating Agent jobs to do the backups and using the undocumented scripts, I'd agree with ratback, use...
June 4, 2026 at 7:40 pm
About 15 years ago, I was hired as the first DBA at a small medical records company. My first project was to assess the overall environment and make suggestions/changes...
May 26, 2026 at 1:49 pm
Well, it's happening to me...
I'm starting to use AI. Granted, I used it to trim a resume down to 2 pages to fit the requirements of an online application system,...
May 26, 2026 at 12:06 pm
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