Learning SQL Server
Learn about the core SQL Server concepts to build your skill set including the architecture, database design, development, administration and more.
2021-02-24
professional development
Bad Managers
I’m constantly hearing stories about terrible managers, and, of course, I’ve experienced quite a few myself. In fact, I can’t come up with many nice things to say about most managers when I look back over my career. (Luckily, my manager at Redgate is wonderful!) Early in my tech career, I was working at a […]
2020-05-16
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How Much Can You Learn?
This Friday Steve Jones wonders about the upper limits for what you may learn in a year.
2016-04-08
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2016-01-12
143 reads
It's OK to be an Outfitter, not a Prospector
As data professional I have played with Analytics and found I'm better suited to development and administration, and that's ok.
2015-02-03
96 reads
DBA of the World
Conference travel enhances our minds with more than just SQL. It exposes us to new cultures, people and possibilities.
2015-01-05
99 reads
I am no Asimov
Rodney Landrum on finding the inspiration you need, somehow and from somewhere, to get yourself out of a tight corner.
2014-09-29
111 reads
Creating a DBA's Library
A DBA Library: it's not the library in traditional terms where you have books and journals stacked on your desk; rather it's a centralized and integrated repository of knowledge, information and applications for the DBA.
2014-01-17
4,700 reads
Budget for Training
Work on your professional development plan in 2014. Steve Jones has a little advice for you.
2014-01-06
147 reads
Competence trumps a good cultural fit
Phil Factor reflects on how the people who made the industry great, in the past, were often eccentric, rebellious, odd, truculent, but all blessed with the gift of creating wonderful software. Today, such people would struggle to get pass the first interview.
2013-09-30
201 reads
Blogs
Small Data SF 2024
By Steve Jones
I can’t remember how I heard about Small Data SF 2024, but it caught...
A New Word: Moledro
By Steve Jones
moledro – n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll...
Snowflake + Azure blob
By Arun Sirpal
Let’s go back to data platforms today and I want to talk about a...
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