Category Archives: Editorial

No Defaults Passwords Ever

Posted on January 17, 2026 by way0utwest

I appreciate default passwords on systems. Often, for routers or other devices, I might need a way to connect initially. Or, if I perform a hardware reset, I want some password that I can use to reconfigure things. However, I … Continue reading →

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Eight Minutes

Posted on January 16, 2026 by way0utwest

When I was at the Small Data 2025 conference, one of the speakers was talking about their work with AI technologies. This person uses it a lot in their day job, often to complete tasks that they would have struggled … Continue reading →

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JSON Has a Cost

Posted on January 14, 2026 by way0utwest

JSON seems to be everywhere these days. Many application developers like it across all sorts of languages, C#, JAVA, Python, and more. They use it for transferring information between systems, and are comfortable serializing hierarchical object data into JSON from … Continue reading →

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An SSIS Upgrade

Posted on January 12, 2026 by way0utwest

I came across a post recently on the Microsoft Fabric blog about the evolution of SSIS 2025..I hadn’t heard much about SSIS in SQL Server 2025, so I thought this might provide some info on the investments that Microsoft is … Continue reading →

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