2018-11-06
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Editorials
Explaining Our Professions to Our Parents
Have you ever had a difficult time explaining what your job entails to your parents or other family members? You may be working in a field that didn’t exist 20 years ago, such as mobile device development, or your job may be so specialized that non-technical people will never understand. Now that my job title […]
2018-11-05
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2018-11-05
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Embrace Stored Procedures
Developers working with SQL Server should learn to embrace stored procedures. They really, really do work well.
2018-11-01 (first published: 2015-04-20)
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Software Engineering in Practice
Is there a need for apprenticeships in the data world? Should we consciously seek to view our first year as an apprenticeship? Should companies provide learning paths for new hires?
2018-10-31 (first published: 2015-03-30)
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Skills for Everyone in Tech
Today Kathi talks about the skills that all of us need to succeed in our careers.
2018-10-30
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Burnout
Doing the same thing for too long, and not enjoying it, isn't good for anyone. You might be burned out, or as Steve Jones notes, you might need to change our perspective.
2018-10-29 (first published: 2015-02-09)
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2018-10-29
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Can Auditing Fail?
It doesn't seem to be a feature that an auditing system can fail, but the application being audited continues to run.
2018-10-26 (first published: 2015-05-05)
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Holidays as Benefits
When you take a job, do you ask about holidays? Do you consider them a benefit? Andy Warren asks what those holidays might mean to you.
2018-10-25 (first published: 2015-03-03)
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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