Category Archives: Editorial

What’s a Lot of Money?

Posted on February 26, 2021 by way0utwest

The other day I was talking to a someone about the amount of money their business spent on a particular transaction. This person thought the amount was high, but I didn’t. We had an interesting discussion from there. Today, I’m … Continue reading →

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UX Matters

Posted on February 25, 2021 by way0utwest

When I was early in my career, VB v4 was popular, and easy. So many basic apps were built by not only software developers, but people in other departments with an interest in programming. Through VB v6, I found so … Continue reading →

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Shared Security

Posted on February 23, 2021 by way0utwest

When I worked in a large Operations team, we had various passwords for some systems that we stored in a password vault. This was on a network share that only the administrators had access to read. We used this for … Continue reading →

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Being Professional

Posted on February 22, 2021 by way0utwest

I often write about data professionals, meaning those people who work with data and are paid to do so. Certainly some of you might be amateurs, doing data work as a hobby, but most of the people that visit SQLServerCentral … Continue reading →

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