I'm very humbled and honored to be able to type this next sentence. My friend, Buck Woody, sometimes gives me book recommendations. Except, with Buck, you have to understand, it's not really a recommendation. It's an assignment. There'll be a test later. You had best have studied. Failing, well, let's not discuss that, it's too […]
2026-01-31
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Steve notes today that there are many, many database platforms out there you can use for your next application.
2026-01-30
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AI is everywhere, and if you spend any amount of time looking for answers on the Internet to your coding challenges, you've likely encountered a lot of poor, average, good, bad, amazing, and just-helpful-enough AI content. For awhile, I was avoiding the AI summary from Google as the quality seemed slightly off, but lately it's […]
2026-01-28
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GenAI technology is going to change coding, but there is still a lot of work available for humans.
2026-01-26
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An ETL issue with Excel causes issues, because the users didn't realize a limitation.
2026-01-23 (first published: 2020-10-19)
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2026-01-21
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We need data that represents the problem we want to solve, or we might not achieve our aims.
2026-01-19 (first published: 2021-01-21)
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Steve doesn't see a reason why we should have default passwords on systems ever.
2026-01-17
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When I was at the Small Data 2025 conference, one of the speakers was talking about their work with AI technologies. This person uses it a lot in their day job, often to complete tasks that they would have struggled to work on in the past, mostly because of time constraints, but also a lack […]
2026-01-16
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JSON has become a very popular data format used in many software applications. However, it's not magic.
2026-01-14
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By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
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Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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