2020-09-30
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Editorials
Keeping Your Staff
Retaining staff is always a challenge for many organizations. Today Steve talks about the difficulties of doing so and in choosing who to retain.
2020-09-29
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Do You Know What the Settings Should Be?
Estate management keeps getting more complex, especially with the move to the cloud, or to multiple clouds. Today Steve talks about the need to ensure you know what the settings are in your environments.
2020-09-28
89 reads
New Stuff Can Be Scary
I'm learning how to be a net controller for a high frequency (HF) radio network. Nets are a fun way to make lots of contacts quickly. Taking part in a net is simple. You check in with the net control and then you can answer calls or make calls (different nets have different rules). It's […]
2020-09-26
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2020-09-25 (first published: 2016-09-16)
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The 10X Programmer
Today Steve Jones discusses the mythical 10x programmer from the context of databases.
2020-09-24 (first published: 2016-09-19)
292 reads
The Habits of Better Teams
Building a strong team is hard, and it takes work. A few thoughts today from Steve on how you can do this.
2020-09-23
114 reads
The New Normal Annoyances
Steve talks a bit about the new challenges of working in a different environment and the challenges you might face.
2020-09-22
96 reads
Compatibility Level Confidence
The database compatibility level ought to provide some protection from database upgrade changes, but do you believe that?
2020-09-21
296 reads
Coping with a working life as an imposter
It is not existing knowledge but the skill of acquiring new knowledge rapidly that will help you overcome imposter syndrome.
2020-09-19
316 reads
Blogs
SQL Training: Black Friday Deals Up to 75% Off
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When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a company?
The post When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a...
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...
Forums
Simple Junction table design question
I have a disagreement with the programming team on an app that I designed....
Sql query to check the status change for an item
I have a table dbo.tblPresentationStatus (sql script attached - table script.txt) I have to...
Migration of on-premises SQL Server to an AWS PostgreSQL database
We are planning to migrate our on-premises SQL Server to an AWS PostgreSQL database...
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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