The Secure Medical Data Challenge
This week Steve looks at the challenges of security for medical data.
2017-02-27
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Editorial
2022-12-26 (first published: 2017-02-24)
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The Cloud is Just a Tool
Today Steve Jones argues the cloud is just another tool for us to use. Not required, not ignored, but considered.
2017-02-23
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2017-02-20
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Approaching Politics in IT
The news cycle seems to be dominated by discussion of politics. Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, the talk of politics is inescapable and is probably going to lead to you being displeased with your fellow man. Luckily, we work in IT, so we can avoid politics. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Politics goes way beyond […]
2017-02-20
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What motivates you to do your best?
In today's guest editorial: the motivation to do our best must come from within.
2023-04-07 (first published: 2017-02-17)
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2017-02-16
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What Would You Do if Your Company Was Targeted?
Today we have a guest editorial that asks what you might do if you knew a hacker was coming after your organization.
2017-02-15
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Quality Provides Traction/Velocity
Quality is a driver for productivity. Or so say I. What do you think.
2017-02-14
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Problems With Database Problems
The GitLab crisis has Steve Jones thinking about two things: competence and care.
2017-02-13
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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