Category Archives: Editorial

Speakers Are Normal People

Posted on January 27, 2023 by way0utwest

The #SQLFamily is amazing, at least I think it is. Like many families, it’s welcoming, supportive, and comforting. It’s also maddening, frustrating, and exacerbating at times. Like most families, or at least the ones I know, it’s not perfect, but … Continue reading →

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Losing Track of Data

Posted on January 25, 2023 by way0utwest

I saw this article a few months ago, which talks about engineers at Facebook not knowing where their customers’ personal data is stored. The engineers were being questioned in a legal matter, where they were asked to definitively state where … Continue reading →

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The Challenge of Deleting Data

Posted on January 23, 2023 by way0utwest

We collect a lot of data in our databases. Not as much in bytes as a lot of the video/audio/TikTok/Instagram sites, but still enough that many of us are constantly adding storage to our systems. All this data is not … Continue reading →

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Minimize Typing

Posted on January 20, 2023 by way0utwest

It couldn’t have happened to a worse set of people, and I’m glad it did, but I’ll still take a positive lesson out of this. A hacker sent a typo in a command to a botnet and lost control. That’s … Continue reading →

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