CSO recently published an article based on a report from Harmonic about generative AI data leaks, and the findings were eye-opening. According to the report, over 8% of employee prompts to public large language models (LLMs) contained sensitive data, ranging from security and compliance issues to privacy and legal vulnerabilities. This wasn’t just a handful […]
2025-03-08
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Today Steve asks if you track the details of your table growth inside a database.
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The job outlook for database professionals is good, but it's not that easy to get a great job. Steve has some advice for you today.
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Steve has a few thoughts on natural keys, which often turn out not to be as unique as we expect.
2025-03-03
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There was a post on X I read today about valuing your time. The gist was that since this person had waited 9 minutes to save $4, they valued their time at $27 an hour. I get the point being made. Time is valuable and you need to set the value of your time. It […]
2025-03-01
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Today Steve asks which data model issues are most annoying to you.
2025-02-28
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Steve re-posts a question from someone else, asking why you wouldn't want to use an AI.
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Triggers. Who doesn’t like a good, lively debate about triggers? With the extreme cold that we’ve experienced this past week in the northeastern U.S., I feel like a little heated debate wouldn’t be a bad way to forget about the cold. But alas, I’m not here to talk about database triggers. Sorry, we’ll have to […]
2025-02-23 (first published: 2025-02-22)
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After his watch broke, Steve had to get a new tool and isn't sure it was a good move.
2025-02-21
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When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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