Psychological Safety
Building psychological safety inside of a company is hard, but it is important to build trust and develop a team.
2022-11-09
77 reads
Editorials
DevOps is Culture
A big part of adopting DevOps and becoming better at building software is establishing culture.
2022-11-07
196 reads
Life Organization
For years, those of us in technology have often worked outside of the core working hours for the rest of our organization. Whether this is being on-call, staying late, or coming in when asked. It's not uncommon for many developers and Ops staff to work 60, 70, or more hours to get things built/deployed/supported for […]
2022-11-04
170 reads
From Compass '99 to Data Community Summit 2022
Steve looks back at Summits past and his excitement for this year.
2022-11-03 (first published: 2022-11-02)
72 reads
2022-10-31
227 reads
Friendship and Your Career
PASS Data Community Summit is coming up like an out of control freight train. Another couple of weeks and it'll be here. I'm excited about it every year and I really hope to see you there. Please, consider this a personal invite to say hi if you see me around. I'm bringing all this up […]
2022-10-29
103 reads
2022-10-28
144 reads
Cone of Uncertainty
Our design and modeling is often done with some level of uncertainty. Steve has a few guidelines today.
2022-10-26
167 reads
2022-10-24
187 reads
The Home Password Cracker
Passwords cracked in under an hour using modern hardware have Steve shaking his head.
2022-10-22
383 reads
Blogs
The Cost of Not Having a DBA
By Kevin3NF
Does skipping a DBA save money? Wait until your system grinds to a halt,...
Who are you? Building an identity map.
By Brian Kelley
I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?,...
Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory
Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure...
Forums
How to update using data from three tables?
I am in the process of migrating from MySQL to SQL Server. I have...
Select Returning Blank Rows
I have the following select statement --#1 Select supplier, s.refnum, desc from supplier as...
How to update a history table with changes.
Good morning to all. I am a novice when it comes to SQL so...
Question of the Day
Replacing a NULL II
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2022?
DECLARE @value INT = NULL , @value2 VARCHAR(20) = NULL; SELECT COALESCE (@value, @value2, 100.5) AS Result; GOSee possible answers