Data Ownership
Sometimes determining who owns the data or information isn't that easy. Steve Jones has an example from the US election in 2008.
2008-10-20
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Editorial - WMV
Enough - Database Weekly (Oct. 20, 2008)
The loss of data is getting ridiculous. Steve Jones wants companies and government to do something about it.
2008-10-18
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The Financial Crisis
With the economy slowing the the world facing a financial crisis, Steve Jones polls the man on the street this Friday.
2008-10-16
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Moving to the Heartland
With companies like Microsoft and Google building data centers in small towns, Steve Jones has some comments about how this might affect IT jobs.
2008-10-15
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Too Good at Data Analysis
Can you be too good at analyzing data? An interesting story from the financial markets.
2008-10-13
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Data Farming
Another spy story involving data that's not true, and perhaps not plausible, but it makes Steve Jones think about data shadows.
2008-10-11
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Climb Another Mountain - Database Weekly (Oct 13, 2008)
The next version of SQL Server has a codename. Or does it? Steve Jones talks about some announcements in the SQL Server world this past week.
2008-10-11
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Database Health
What's in a database health report? Steve Jones asks what you might want to put in one for this Friday's poll.
2008-10-09
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Project Management Management
The state of project management for technology projects doesn't seem to be keeping up with technology itself. Steve Jones talks a little about what might be wrong.
2008-10-08
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Take the Plunge
Today Steve Jones talks about starting your own business and should you do it with online tools.
2008-10-07
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Blogs
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers