Schema Security
This week Steve is wondering about the use of schemas for security or other purposes.
2019-03-01
481 reads
Editorial
2020-02-06 (first published: 2019-02-28)
353 reads
The RDBMS is Often the Right Tool
Today Steve gives reasons why he thinks the RDBMS is often better than a NoSQL database of any sort.
2019-02-27
78 reads
Should the Data Lake be Immutable?
Data warehouses and lakes are often loaded from other data, so should they be immutable?
2019-02-26
780 reads
Dealing with Ugly Babies
One thing I learned while working as a database administrator over 17 years is the importance of teamwork across departments. Many times, we have to rely on network and SAN administrator to make changes to their environments in order to make SQL Server run more efficiently. There are times where the storage and network create […]
2019-02-25
56 reads
The Employee Target
Will employee data become a target of hackers? It's likely more a movie plot than reality, at least, Steve hopes so.
2019-02-25
61 reads
A Good Benefit?
A company is letting companies trade vacation for payments against student loan debt.
2019-02-22
63 reads
Treat All Sensitive Data as Important
No matter what the reason you have sensitive information, you need to treat it carefully.
2019-02-21
46 reads
2019-02-20
50 reads
How Perfect Should Our Software Be?
Steve talks about the level of engineering effort we need in software development.
2019-02-19
63 reads
Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
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This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
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