Crazy Interview Questions
Interviews are always a challenge, but sometimes there are crazy questions. We can do better, especially in terms of how we evaluate the answer to a question.
2022-05-09
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Editorials
Finding New Employment
You can find new employment with a little work and choose the best job for you.
2022-05-07
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2022-05-06
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Project Zero for Better Security
Project Zero from Google aims to study zero day vulnerabilities. Steve hopes it leads to better security.
2022-05-04
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2022-05-02
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What will convince you to upgrade?
You’ve probably heard that SQL Server 2022 is on the way, and, assuming the name doesn’t change, it will be later this year. That is great news for folks in the data platform community as features and improvements they’ve been hoping for are added. I’m not currently supporting any production SQL Servers, but I’m still […]
2022-04-30
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Gathering Data Through Life
Every once in a while, I find a list of places posted on the Internet with a "how many have you visited?" question attached. This might be US states, countries, cities, or even attractions. I love traveling with my wife and having new experiences, and as we've gotten older, we value the experiences more than […]
2022-04-29
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Migrating a Large Database
Large database upgrades are stressful, but a little planning and practice can help things go smooth.
2022-04-27
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The Craziness of Code
Building software can seem like a crazy process, especially to a developer who joins a project.
2022-04-25
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Scripting Makes Mistakes Easier Than Ever
A major outage from Atlassian because of a bad script has Steve thinking about the challenges of recovering from mistakes. When we are making changes to portions of our data and we need to plan for mistakes to occur and ensure we can restore the data.
2022-04-22
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Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
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Question of the Day
Renaming a Database
If I want to rename the OldSales database to ArchiveSales, how can I do this? (choose 2)
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