The RDBMS is Often the Right Tool
Today Steve gives reasons why he thinks the RDBMS is often better than a NoSQL database of any sort.
2019-02-27
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editorial
Should the Data Lake be Immutable?
Data warehouses and lakes are often loaded from other data, so should they be immutable?
2019-02-26
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Dealing with Ugly Babies
One thing I learned while working as a database administrator over 17 years is the importance of teamwork across departments. Many times, we have to rely on network and SAN administrator to make changes to their environments in order to make SQL Server run more efficiently. There are times where the storage and network create […]
2019-02-25
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The Employee Target
Will employee data become a target of hackers? It's likely more a movie plot than reality, at least, Steve hopes so.
2019-02-25
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A Good Benefit?
A company is letting companies trade vacation for payments against student loan debt.
2019-02-22
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Treat All Sensitive Data as Important
No matter what the reason you have sensitive information, you need to treat it carefully.
2019-02-21
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2019-02-20
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How Perfect Should Our Software Be?
Steve talks about the level of engineering effort we need in software development.
2019-02-19
59 reads
You Need Offline Backups
Steve talks about the need to be careful with backups in this age of malicious attackers.
2019-02-18
53 reads
2019-02-15
63 reads
Blogs
Small Data SF 2024
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I can’t remember how I heard about Small Data SF 2024, but it caught...
A New Word: Moledro
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Snowflake + Azure blob
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Let’s go back to data platforms today and I want to talk about a...
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