Category Archives: Editorial

Accounting for Typos

Posted on June 27, 2022 by way0utwest

When I watched Star Trek as a kid, I was amazed by the technology. Talking to the computer, the touch screens, the handheld communicators. We have most of those devices now, without the space travel. Hopefully that will start to … Continue reading →

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Long Term Storage

Posted on June 24, 2022 by way0utwest

Data storage has always been a concern for data professionals. Early on in my career, we dealt with large ESDI, IDE, and SCSI drives, all of which would fail unexpectedly in servers. Sometimes after a few years, sometimes after a … Continue reading →

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Onboarding Remote Employees

Posted on June 22, 2022 by way0utwest

I guess that I was a remote employee that needed to onboard at a new company at one point. When Redgate Software bought SQL Server Central, I lived in Colorado and the company was (mostly) in Cambridge, UK. However, I … Continue reading →

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Better Communication of Information

Posted on June 20, 2022 by way0utwest

Many of us work with data in some way that helps a customer better understand data, use it to make a decision, or support a some conclusion. The way we present data (or help others present data) can impact how … Continue reading →

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