Positive Blogging
Blogging is increasingly becoming a part of more and more people's lives. But to what extent should it be part of your corporate image? Steve Jones has a few comments about a very interesting blog he found.
2008-09-04
92 reads
Editorials
2008-09-02
154 reads
Labor Day Bloopers
With the Labor Day holiday in the US, Steve Jones takes a break from writing and brings you a compilation of mistakes from the past few months.
2008-09-01
435 reads
One Milly-yon IOPS - Database Weekly (Sept 1, 2008)
IBM is testing a new hardware disk array that vastly outperforms any current arrays. What does this mean for the database world?
2008-09-01
243 reads
Un-Wired
This Friday's poll looks at vacation and how you prepare to be unwired. Steve Jones talks about some of the things you can do.
2008-08-29
75 reads
The August 2008 Energy Update
This bi-monthly update on energy news covers quite a bit of wind-related power generation happening around the world.
2008-08-28
93 reads
The Million Message System
Sun Microsystems built a database application that processes a million messages a second. Steve Jones talks about the achievement.
2008-08-27
161 reads
Working Under Pressure
A time of crisis means a lot of things to people in technology, but Steve Jones talks about something that's often forgotten.
2008-08-26
184 reads
Believe in Your Data - Database Weekly (Aug 25, 2008)
As DBAs we must secure and protect data, but what can we do when there are fundamental issues with the way the systems are designed. Steve Jones comments on problems with voting machines.
2008-08-25
65 reads
If You Ain't Cheatin'
Gaining recognition or an award without earning it is something Steve Jones thinks is a problem in society in general, and it's filtered into the IT industry.
2008-08-25
226 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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