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- @zippy1981 Not too often, some emails, but not that bad. However, when I need a job, I ask friends first, quietly.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8… 5 hours ago
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Tag Archives: Database Weekly
The Need for DRE
“Today’s database professionals must be engineers, not administrators” That’s a quote from an interview at O’Reilly on Database Reliability Engineering. I don’t want to quibble about whether those of us working in technology are engineers in name or not, but … Continue reading
Security and Patching Struggles
A couple weeks ago we had a huge security issue with the WannaCry ransomware racing across the world. I was out of the office, and mostly offline, so I was a bit out of touch. However, many organizations were affected, … Continue reading
The Power BI Pivot
This week we had quite a bit of Power BI content appear on various blogs and sites. Some of this was normal traffic, with Power BI gaining popularity and more data professionals writing about the topic. There are always quite … Continue reading
More Power in Your BI
I’ve seen lots of data visualization tools over the years. Cognos, Microstrategy, ProClarity, and more. While I haven’t been a BI person for most of my career, in many of my positions, someone has wanted to try some new tool … Continue reading
The vNext Bleeding Edge
Microsoft has had early access programs for years. I worked at a few companies that were a part of the TAP (Technology Adoption Program) program, and we would get access to code early in exchange for providing feedback and working … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged Database Weekly, sql server
Faster Versions and More Support
When I started working with SQL Server, the versions came a strange paces. Three years between v4.2 and v6.0, but less than 1 before v6.5. Then two years to v7, one more to SQL Server 2000, but five until SQL … Continue reading
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Tagged Database Weekly, sql server
Local Database Issues
There was a report that Spotify is writing lots of junk data to users’ local drives. Some people have noted GB a day or writes, even when they aren’t using Spotify for listening to music. Some debugging by users show … Continue reading
Intelligence from Data
There is an incredible amount of data in the world, and all that data is changing the way industries work. That’s the opening to a keynote talk from Jim McHugh at the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference. The talk is short, … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged AI, Database Weekly, machine learning
Analyzing Data in Real Time
A few years ago I was listening to a presentation from Microsoft where they touted a customer that had real time analytics with Analysis Services. Since my exposure had been that cubes needed to be processed, a resource intensive process, … Continue reading
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Tagged data analysis, Database Weekly
Why We Need Backups First
One of the things I show when I talk about TDE is that the backup of the certificate is very important. When you create a certificate, SQL Server warns you right away that a backup of the certificate is needed. … Continue reading
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Tagged backup, Database Weekly
