Adding the Right Value
Are you doing the things at work that your boss cares about or the things you care about? Steve has a few thoughts on this.
2025-01-08
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Editorials
The Change Failure Rate
The number of times that you have a failure when deploying changes is a good metric to watch.
2025-01-07 (first published: 2019-06-03)
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The Rise of Data Centers
There is still a huge demand for data centers, both from cloud vendors and private enterprises.
2025-01-06
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2025-01-04
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2025-01-03
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2025-01-01
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How Much AI Do We Need?
AI seems to be invading many different parts of our life. Today Steve wonders how much we really need.
2024-12-30 (first published: 2020-04-20)
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Subscribing to a Great New Year
It is December 27, and the most significant day of the year for reviewing your life is quickly approaching. New Year’s Day is probably the most positive day of the year when people, in all manner of situations, think back to the previous rotation around the earth and decide what they will do better this […]
2024-12-28
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On Looking and Acting the Part
Phil Factor's offers tips for longevity in the world of IT consultancy: listen well, humiliate no-one and convince others that it was their expertise that solved the problem.
2024-12-27 (first published: 2020-01-18)
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2024-12-25
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Blogs
How-To Convert Excel Date & Time to SQL
By DataOnWheels
Hey data friends! This one comes from my personal vault (aka backlog of drafts...
SQL in 2025: Still the King of Data
Data's the new oil, and SQL is your refinery. It's still the go-to language...
Drop roles in Postgres
You can’t just exec DROP ROLE your_role_name; if it’s granted perms or other roles...
Forums
Why you should avoid Implicit Measures in your Power BI model
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why you should avoid Implicit...
Is it possible to create a parameter and use different datasets?
Hello, I have an SSRS report, version 2019, that has two parameters, which will...
Calculating Numerator and Denominator
Good evening, I have a rather peculiar issue while trying to calculate Numerator and...
Question of the Day
The AG Synchronous Replicas
In a SQL Server 2022 Enterprise Edition AG, how many replicas can be configured with synchronous commit mode?
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