Data Quality on the Open Web
As we look to take more data from customers and clients and embed it in our applications, data quality becomes a bigger issue
2011-09-21
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Editorials
Free as in Beer
This editorial was originally published on Feb 7, 2006. Today Steve Jones looks at the problems of plagiarism and the avoidance of work by many people these days.
2011-09-20
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Dreaming of Windows
This week Steve Jones dreams about the changes he would like to see in the next version of Windows, unveiled this past week at the Microsoft Build Conference.
2011-09-19
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Intertia
This editorial was originally published on August 22, 2006. Steve Jones looks at the pace of change in companies and notes it ought to be dictated by the business, not IT.
2011-09-19
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Dotted Line Relationships Are Everywhere – Get Good at Them!
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy talks about the relationships we have at work with our management and how sometimes the indirect reports are hard to deal with.
2011-09-16
106 reads
Cloud Common Sense
Moving to the cloud, or any other type of outsourcing should be done with common sense, as Steve discusses today. That means keeping control of your backups.
2011-09-15
103 reads
Not on the Same Page
It seems that security staff and other technical people are not always on the same page. Steve Jones says that we should be working to take security more seriously.
2011-09-14
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2011-09-13
114 reads
A Matter of Life or Death
Could your job as a data professional result in the death of someone? It's entirely possible this might affect you at some point. Steve Jones talks about why you ought to do your best when setting up security.
2011-09-12
149 reads
Now you ODBC me now you don't
Phil Factor reflects on Microsoft's "handbrake turn" on OLE DB; Denali's successor will have to have all this plumbing ripped out to replace it with the older ODBC technology. It's a surprising move but makes a lot of sense, given the ubiquity of ODBC drivers for relational data access.
2011-09-12
277 reads
Blogs
Using Flyway with Feature Flags
By Steve Jones
There is a nice article at Harness.io on their use of feature flags and...
Microsoft Build event announcements on Fabric
By James Serra
There were a number of Microsoft Fabric announcements at Microsoft Build yesterday that I wanted to...
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LOGON Trigger Count
I have the need in SQL Server 2022 to create a complex set of checks for logins. I want to use Longon triggers, but I'd like to separate out logic. How many Logon Triggers can I create?
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