If I might use a car as an analogy, many people do not care about their cars.  They want it to work, they accept that they must put fuel in...

We use git.  Deployments to any shared environment can only take place from the main/master branch.

We develop in short-lived branches and a lot of automated tests and QA tasks.  The...

Looking back at this after 5 years....

• Does ChatGPT and LLMs suggest that English Query was ahead of its time?
• Other DB platforms now allow the extensibility that SQLCLR gives. ...

I feel it is a lazy filter for "are they capable of studying unsupervised".

I've heard...

My career in data started because I (naively) thought that I would better understand human behaviour by collecting and analyzing data.  Nearly 40 years on I understand far less than...

I feel that your most needed confidence is that needed for you to ask questions when you are not sure about something.

One of my biggest regrets is in not having...

I think I read in a Daniel Pink book that we need 3 things to be happy

• To feel we are achieving something
• To feel that what we achieving is...

Over the past decade my role has changed from DBA to Data Engineer.  Put bluntly, I don't think I could manually execute a deployment  of my stack alone, certainly not...

The majority of what I do is in the cloud.  A substantial number of what is exposed to me as data sources is in some form of cloud bucket.

What I...

Admirable restraint there Jeff.  The temptation for "P-Sept" or "P7" must have...

7 years on things have moved on.  Human code reviews are hugely inefficient, inconsistent and prone to errors.

Collaborative design and design reviews are useful because they set you on the...

I'm not worried about AI per se but I am worried the following scenarios

• People using it as a crutch rather than a leg up
• People not realising their responsibilities...

I don't think we'd get an answer from AWS as to how many of the SQL Server RDS's are on Linux.  AWS have their own flavour of Linux too.  For...

The cloud vendors all have their version of the Well Architected Framework.  I recommend that you read about it before you start implementing anything in the cloud.

For a moment I thought this was an editorial for consultants!

We have the Mac/Windows divide which is a bump in the road for thick clients.  For me the beauty of...