Category Archives: Editorial

Returning To An Employer

Posted on June 29, 2022 by way0utwest

I’ve had a number of jobs in my career. In many instances, I left on good terms, and I’d go back to the organization if there was a job that suited me. I’d like to think that many of these … Continue reading →

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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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