Loyalty Cards
Many businesses have loyalty programs to encourage repeat business. However do they think about data security when they build these programs? Steve Jones thinks they could do better.
Loyalty Cards
Many businesses have loyalty programs to encourage repeat business. However do they think about data security when they build these programs? Steve Jones thinks they could do better.
Changing Table Schema – what goes behind the scenes – Part II
Part two of his series on table schema changes, this article examines those changes that affect the actual data. Read this great article from Alok Dwivedi.
Placing a Value on Data
What's your stolen data worth? It might be worth investigating, as Steve Jones suggests. Then you'll know how much you should be spending to protect it.
Foreign Key Constraints Revisited
Full/partial schema refreshes across environments are a regular requirement in databases. This article builds on a previous article, providing scripts to disable and re-enable foreign key constraints on all of the tables in a schema.
Installing Hyper-V and Beyond
In his previous article “Hyper-V, an introduction” Jaap Wesselius explained about the Hypervisor, the parent partition, the child partition, and Integration Components. In this article Jaap discusses installing Hyper-V, all kinds of Virtual Hard Disks, Virtual Networks, and some best practices.
Placing a Value on Data
What's your stolen data worth? It might be worth investigating, as Steve Jones suggests. Then you'll know how much you should be spending to protect it.
Placing a Value on Data
What's your stolen data worth? It might be worth investigating, as Steve Jones suggests. Then you'll know how much you should be spending to protect it.
Placing a Value on Data
What's your stolen data worth? It might be worth investigating, as Steve Jones suggests. Then you'll know how much you should be spending to protect it.
Building an API
Is it better to build an API into your code and allow someone to "plug in" or provide them with source code? Steve Jones thinks the former is better and gives you a few reasons why.
Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
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Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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