Tag Archives: Database Weekly

Location Data Privacy

Posted on August 17, 2020 by way0utwest

I caught a post from Bruce Schneier that references an article about a company collecting location data from numerous apps (WSJ, AndroidAuthority). This is legal, though the company has ties to the US government. As expected, there are people upset … Continue reading →

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Digging Into Internals

Posted on July 18, 2020 by way0utwest

Hugo Kornelis is a fellow Data Platform MVP and friend. He runs SQL Server Fast, and we recently put up an interesting page with this title: Debugging with debugger: investigating SQL Server’s internal structures. That’s a great title, and it … Continue reading →

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Managing Stress

Posted on July 4, 2020 by way0utwest

This has been a stressful time for many people around the world. Working remotely, limited movement, pressure to continue to perform while perhaps being worried about continued employment, these and many more factors have made the last few months hard … Continue reading →

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Moar Azure

Posted on June 20, 2020 by way0utwest

There are a number of choices for working in the cloud, aka, renting resources, but there are three big choices: Azure, AWS, and GCP. These three dominate the cloud services, though arguably AWS and Azure are way ahead. All three … Continue reading →

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