The world seems to be proceeding through some stuff at the moment. IT and our industry as a whole, equally seems to be going through some stuff. As such, allow this oldster to offer some advice: Take care of yourself. I know, I'm the same, you may have responsibilities for others. You need to take […]
2024-05-04
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Today Steve asks about on-call responsibility for you and how you view this as part of your job, or in your job search.
2024-05-03
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A big part of success is making an effort. Steve discusses the need to do things and not passively let life pass you by.
2024-05-01
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Today, Kendra Little talks about code reviews and why they should be done early.
2024-04-29 (first published: 2020-02-07)
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Since the title might be considered a bit vague, I don’t want you to wade through the article to figure it out. I will spare you the typical clickbait introduction, with me telling you what a foreign key constraint is, and why it and all the other constraint types provided by relational engines are useful. […]
2024-04-27
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Today, Grant talks about reasons that companies don't upgrade.
2024-04-26 (first published: 2020-02-11)
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Today, Grant Fritchey compares a disaster caused by a toilet to technical debt in IT.
2024-04-24 (first published: 2020-02-24)
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Management is important to ensuring the success of a team. Steve talks about an anti-pattern that is often used by poor managers.
2024-04-22
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I want to make this a participation topic. When you are working, do you listen to music or do you need quiet? And if it isn’t music, do you do something else? TV, movies? For me, it is almost always music. As I write my first Database Weekly newsletter editorial in a few months, I […]
2024-04-20
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2024-04-19 (first published: 2020-01-21)
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By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
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You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
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