I use Chat-GPT occasionally, instead of Google, to get answers to technical questions. However, I regard Chat-GPT as an indiscriminate conveyor of existing information, not artificial intelligence.
2023-08-30
The whole universe, the well-guarded people—may they all query databases together in a single language!
2022-08-13
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Git has proved to be a better fit to the needs and workflow of a database development team than anything that came before. Git is valuable because it encourages branching and merging, giving more choice in the way that your team can work. Due to the ease with which you can adapt Git, there is […]
2021-04-03
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2020-12-12
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If you're faced by an investigation team, after a data breach, it is no use putting on your 'Mr. Sincerity' face and making vague statements. They want documented facts.
2020-11-14
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Phil Factor's manual for taming machines, applications, and other wild beasts.
2020-10-17
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It is not existing knowledge but the skill of acquiring new knowledge rapidly that will help you overcome imposter syndrome.
2020-09-19
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One of the finest songs of the sixties had the following lines … "Sitting one day by myself, And I'm thinking, "What could be wrong?" When this funny little Hedgehog comes running up to me, And it starts up to sing me this song. Oh, you know all the words, and you sung all the […]
2020-08-22
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For those of you who haven’t heard of it, MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional. Microsoft gives this award to people in the community – not employees – who help teach the community at large about their products. The award can be given in one or more of the categories such as Data Platform, AI, […]
2020-08-08
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2020-06-27
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By Steve Jones
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Somehow two years have elapsed since my last update; hopefully it won’t be that...
I have table: t1 in schema1 with 19 billion records. I have another table...
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