Category Archives: Editorial

Column vs Row

Posted on February 11, 2021 by way0utwest

I’ve been working with databases for a long time. They’ve always been relational databases to me, unless they were a key-value, document, or NoSQL class of store. A few years ago at the Pass Summit, David Dewitt gave a keynote … Continue reading →

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Anyone Can Click Through Once

Posted on February 10, 2021 by way0utwest

I was watching some of the Virtual Summit conference content (which is still available) trying to catch up on a few sessions that I missed during the event. One of the sessions I watched was a PowerShell panel. In the … Continue reading →

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A Bug or a Vandalism Opportunity

Posted on February 9, 2021 by way0utwest

I hadn’t heard about this problem at all until I saw a story recently. Apparently a one line command can be hidden inside a Windows shortcut file, a ZIP archive, batch files, or various other vectors. This command can trigger … Continue reading →

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AI Can Improve Healthcare

Posted on February 8, 2021 by way0utwest

It’s early days, but I found this article to be very interesting. In this case, an AI model was trained to use some patient feedback on knee pain, as opposed to a previous methodology. The old methodology did work, but … Continue reading →

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