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Category Archives: Editorial
The Best Days
I recently asked about the worst days in your career, so today let’s turn it around. What are the best days of your career? If you can give us a list of 2 or 3 days, projects, accomplishments, etc., it might … Continue reading
What Data is Really Needed?
The GDPR took effect in May of this year, at least with regards to enforcement. A few days after the May 25 date, a German court ruled against ICANN, the company that registers domain names on the Internet and manages … Continue reading
Maintain Your Trustworthiness
Many of us that are DBAs and/or sysadmins find ourselves with privileged access to many systems. We can often read the data that’s stored in these systems, whether that’s a relational database, a NoSQL store, or even a mail system. … Continue reading
The Master of the Schema
“The database … should be the master of the schema”. It’s not often I see an application developer talk about the importance of the database, or at least that the database (and data) are very important to the success of … Continue reading
The Worst Day
I challenged people to write about their daily work a few weeks ago. I haven’t see a lot of posts, but I am still hopeful some of you will document your day, as Iris Classon has done a few times. It’s not that I expect … Continue reading
Unwired for Weeks
I took a few weeks off recently for a vacation with my family. We traveled from Denver to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and then on to Glacier National Park in Montana. We drove a horse trailer, camping along the way in the vast outdoors … Continue reading
The Ideal IDE
When I started working with SQL Server, I spent a lot of time in Query Analyzer and isql.exe. Those were my two main tools, using those to query a database instance in a lightweight manner. At some point Microsoft released … Continue reading
Will Terminators Be Required?
I was looking at an article the other day and noticed that there was a CTE sample with the semicolon on the line before the code. I’ve been seeing this convention for years, starting your CTE with a semicolon because … Continue reading
Republish: Is SQL Server Mature?
Last day of holiday, so republishing Is SQL Server Mature?
Republish: CI and CD Aren’t Magic
Almost done with vacation, but a few days left. Republishing CI and CD Aren’t Magic
