2020-08-15
70 reads
Data Privacy and Protection
2020-07-21
88 reads
The Social Impact of Data
Let the data drive your decisions. This has been something of a mantra for many technical people, and even many business people, across the last twenty or so years. The allure of business intelligence is harnessing lots of data to make decisions that are rooted in some rational analysis of what has happened. Many companies […]
2020-06-06
84 reads
2020-04-16
129 reads
2020-03-31
67 reads
A Data Controversy
A request to rapidly gather data caused some friction recently. Is that something that organizations ought to be prepared to handle?
2020-03-26
149 reads
Automatic Redaction of PII
Amazon is providing automatic redaction of PII data in there transcription service.
2020-02-29
280 reads
Database Security, People and Processes
Protecting data is not easy, but it is critical. In this article, David Poole discusses database security and the behaviors needed to build secure systems.
2020-01-22
Learn to Change
This week Grant talks about the need for change and growth to adapt to the changing world.
2019-12-21
167 reads
Is Data the Future of the Vibrant Web?
There is a lot of data collected from web browsing. Steve doesn't think we need all that data, unlike Google.
2019-09-24
172 reads
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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