This editorial was originally published on Jul 13, 2019. It is being re-run as Steve is out of town. I recently had the pleasure of catching Paul McCartney in concert, and he was amazing. I have been a fan forever and have heard him tell the same stories he over and over with great delight. […]
2024-08-21 (first published: 2019-07-13)
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Today Steve talks about how we end up with software systems that don't appear to be well engineered.
2024-08-19
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After a recent data breach, Steve read about an analysis of the data. He has a few thoughts on the process that Troy Hunt went through to dig into the data.
2024-08-17
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Time is a valuable resource in your lives, and when you decide to tackle something, something else gets dropped.
2024-08-16
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SQL Injection continues to be a problem and Steve has a few thoughts today on how to reduce your vulnerabilities.
2024-08-14
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A checklist can be helpful, but it needs to be more than a list of things if it's going to drive your career.
2024-08-12
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Don't worry, this is a technical editorial, but the initial analogy starts a bit personal. For the past decade, I've been on a journey to get fit, facing setbacks along the way, such as surgery complications and broken bones, torn cartilage, and, most recently, broken metal implants. Throughout this time, my overall physical fitness has […]
2024-08-10
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2024-08-09
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A document search on a billion row "EAV" table is predicted to take 134 days. With a few design tweaks and an efficient relational division algorithm, Peter Larsson got it down to milliseconds.
2024-08-07 (first published: 2013-12-09)
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Achieving high availability is hard. Today Steve discusses the challenges of five nines of uptime.
2024-08-05 (first published: 2019-09-11)
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By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
By Steve Jones
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Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...