Is Empowerment Good?
Today Steve Jones notes that we use computers to enable others to handle their own work without help. But is that always a good idea.
2012-05-30
98 reads
Editorials
Create Your Own Intense Interview
Today Steve Jones talks about interviews and the way in which he approaches them to make sure that the job is the best fit for both the company and the candidate.
2012-05-29
267 reads
Happy Memorial Day 2012
It's Memorial Day in the US and Steve out is paying tribute to our soldiers and cutting grass on the tractor. He's left you a blooper reel to enjoy.
2012-05-28
62 reads
A Break from Data
This Friday, before the Memorial Day holiday in the US, Steve Jones wants to know how you would spend your break from work.
2012-05-25
118 reads
Making New Infrastructure Investments
One of the areas where the cloud may have the most impact is with new infrastructure improvements. Steve Jones talks about a few companies that are using the cloud in different ways.
2012-05-24
116 reads
The TCO of the Cloud
When is the cloud right for your databases? Steve Jones talks about some metrics and ways you can measure your usage to determine when it makes sense.
2012-05-22
112 reads
Continuous Releases
The idea of continuous development, integration and release can be a way to get your software in use by clients quicker. Steve Jones talks about releases, and some benefits you might get.
2012-05-21
159 reads
Password Handling
A system administrator can set a good example with the passwords they give to users or a bad example. Which one do you set?
2012-05-18
252 reads
Do Interviews Work?
Interviews are the way we primarily make hiring decisions but as Steve Jones notes, we don't really end up doing a very good job of picking good employees in many cases.
2012-05-17
326 reads
What is Big Data?
The definition of Big Data is rather murky, despite all the press and attention given to it. Steve Jones talks about what Big Data means for relational databases.
2012-05-16
746 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
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SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
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Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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