What Do You Drop?
Time is a valuable resource in your lives, and when you decide to tackle something, something else gets dropped.
2024-08-16
99 reads
Career Growth
A Checklist for Learning
A checklist can be helpful, but it needs to be more than a list of things if it's going to drive your career.
2024-08-12
424 reads
Hiring in IT and Relevance of Domain Experience
When choosing to hire someone, do you want experience or freshness? A few thoughts from someone that had to go through this recently.
2024-08-12
1,416 reads
The Biggest Database Professional Challenges Today
What are the biggest challenges you face today? Steve asks the question and is hoping for a few answers from you.
2024-07-22
186 reads
What Do You Want to Learn?
There's a survey available to give your input for what topics you'd like to learn about at the next SQL Saturday.
2024-06-24
110 reads
The Costs and Rewards of Speaking
Steve has had a good time sharing knowledge with others at events. He gives you a few thoughts on why you might join him at a future event.
2024-05-24
133 reads
Are IT Certifications Still Relevant?
Steve talks about certifications today, after watching a video that showcases the benefits of why they are good for your career.
2024-05-08
308 reads
Action Over Knowledge
A big part of success is making an effort. Steve discusses the need to do things and not passively let life pass you by.
2024-05-01
198 reads
When is it time for a new job?
Steve asks the question today about when you might think about changing employers. He has some advice for you, whether you're happy or in need of a new position.
2024-04-05
201 reads
The Journey to Change
Many of us have a journey, either to SQL Server, or in today's world of many databases, perhaps away from SQL Server. Steve looks at his, and another's, journies.
2024-03-29
131 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
Forums
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Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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Question of the Day
The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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