Category Archives: Editorial

Learning Intentionally with a List

Posted on July 2, 2021 by way0utwest

We’re coming up on the middle of the year, and I wonder if you are improving your career this year? Did you make plans and are you sticking to them? I’ve been tracking progress on my goals, and so far … Continue reading →

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Patching Challenges

Posted on June 30, 2021 by way0utwest

In my career, I’ve had to manage many production database instances. In fact, there was a time when two of us were patching hundreds of instances (600?) when MS released patches. That wasn’t too often back then, unlike the every … Continue reading →

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Where Does NoSQL work well?

Posted on June 28, 2021 by way0utwest

It seems not too long ago that NoSQL was the hottest thing on the market. MongoDB was leading the charge, with tremendous growth as a company and many developers looking to adopt their platform. I remember years ago going to … Continue reading →

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Deceptive Visualizations

Posted on June 19, 2021 by way0utwest

I’m sure there are plenty of examples, but I’ve seen deceptive data visualizations far too often in mass media. I don’t often watch the news, but at times I’ve been at the gym, saw a graph on a television and … Continue reading →

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