More Layers - MP3
Less CIOs are reporting to CEOs this past year. Is that a problem? Steve Jones offers some comments.
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Less CIOs are reporting to CEOs this past year. Is that a problem? Steve Jones offers some comments.
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Designing an Entity Data Model
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The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 3
In this article I will settle down a little bit and share with you tools that I have used as part of the data governance trade.
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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