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- Free Technical eBooks From Microsoft July 16, 2018
- When do we want it? Now!! July 5, 2018
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- NodeJS MS-SQL integration testing with Docker June 30, 2018
- Email Overload Tips June 29, 2018
- Google Indexing API for job listings June 27, 2018
- Windows Server security exploits from NSA June 27, 2018
- Sarah Sanders kicked out of restaurant June 27, 2018
- Words to Include, and Avoid, on Your Resume June 27, 2018
- 197 petabytes of data every day June 27, 2018
- Mouse and Keyboard support coming to Xbox June 26, 2018
- 12 Million Sensitive URLs Available for Download June 24, 2018
- Every programmmer should write these programs! June 22, 2018
- Does anyone REALLY still use Windows 7? June 20, 2018
- Robots playing tennis June 18, 2018
- New Hirens BootCD available June 18, 2018
- Video Game Console Emulators June 18, 2018
- diff and comm Linux commands June 15, 2018
- Wireshark Packet Comments (by Tony Fortunato) June 15, 2018
- Microsoft and the Yeoman Coders June 15, 2018
- Apple to use USB-C with 2019 iPhone June 15, 2018
- App Maker, Google’s low-code tool for building apps June 15, 2018
- Where do I store important articles? June 13, 2018
- Messy Chrome Bookmarks June 13, 2018
- It may be time to change your default Web browser June 13, 2018
- Netflix and Google will need to become ISPs June 13, 2018
- BigQuery and Open Datasets June 13, 2018
- Deploying Node.js on App Engine standard environment June 13, 2018
- Files are corrupted on deduplicated volumes that were created as NTFS-compressed June 13, 2018
- Code Injection in Moodle June 13, 2018
- Google News has really gone down hill June 13, 2018
- 6 sole survivors of plane crashes June 11, 2018
- Star Wars fans might be skipping Solo because they’re still angry about The Last Jedi June 11, 2018
- KEY2 Is a Return to Glory for BlackBerry June 11, 2018
- IHOP has revealed the reason behind its big name change, and some people are disappointed June 11, 2018
- People are reselling Elon Musk’s flamethrowers on eBay for thousands of dollars June 11, 2018
- Kim Jong Un’s ‘nuclear button’? June 11, 2018
- Cyclone-class patrol craft is the Navy’s smallest ship June 11, 2018
- Millennials are quitting their day jobs to get rich from Bitcoin June 11, 2018
- How to Make Money Flipping Exclusive Sneakers June 9, 2018
- Why do you need website monitoring today? June 7, 2018
- Google exec – tech firms aren’t looking for coders June 7, 2018
- what is craigslist going to lose next.. jobs? for sale? March 23, 2018
- only two types of people (backups) March 23, 2018
- Apache Kylin OLAP adds SQL Server support March 14, 2018
- Log Data, also known as the ‘Factless Fact Table’ January 28, 2018
- Big Data? January 28, 2018
- Database Guy… or Full-Stack? Sort-of In Between… January 28, 2018
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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Are PCs Dying? Of Course Not, Here’s Why
Reports of the PC’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. We’ve all heard that everyone’s just buying tablets and throwing out their keyboards and mice. But, if you live in the real world, you see people using PCs every day. The … Continue reading
Microsoft Launches OneDrive For Business, Formerly SkyDrive Pro, With New Design
Microsoft Launches OneDrive For Business, Formerly SkyDrive Pro, With New Design A week after officially rebranding SkyDrive as OneDrive, Microsoft has updated the official iOS app of its popular cloud storage service’s business edition to reflect the name change and … Continue reading
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creating a Date Dimension table
Frequently, I have to create a ‘Date Dimension’ table for complex date logic. This is the first script I found on the internet.. that actually works. Lots of other scripts required SQL 2008 or SQL 2012 notation.. most other scripts … Continue reading
Transaction Isolation Levels
Great article on transaction isolation levels.. had to share. http://www.reddit.com/r/Database/comments/1wd7kz/best_explanation_of_transaction_isolation_levels/
Results of the SQL Performance Quiz: 60% fail
Great quiz on SQL indexing. http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2014-02/results-three-minutes-sql-performance-quiz
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Google Cloud SQL debuts, following Amazon's RDS lead
Two and a half years after offering a limited preview, Google has finally opened up Cloud SQL, its managed database service, to all comers. What’s more, it includes a service-level agreement — a sign Google wants users to think of … Continue reading
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Put Big Data Playtime to Bed
If you’re an on-the-job analytics professional, you may feel the pressure starting to build. Big data playtime is over, and real work needs to get done — now. It’s a bit of a “big data shakeout,” in the words of … Continue reading
Big Data Hype Is So 2013
In a recent episode of Robin Williams’s sitcom “The Crazy Ones,” a client of his advertising firm forces him to bring on a “quant,” or quantitative analyst. Williams’s character has no idea what a quant is, but his daughter explains … Continue reading
Big-Data Über Alles
I’ve been on public record for decades criticizing the tendency, every few years, to declare a paradigm shift in data management, a “the world will never be the same” kind of change demanding “fundamentally new ways” of doing things that … Continue reading
WordPress.com has REMOVED their primary app from the Windows Store. WHY?
Dear Friends / Customers / CoWorkers; I have been having a love affair recently. After a dozen years committed to the database industry, I have fallen in LOVE with WordPress. I still have a lot to learn about WordPress. I … Continue reading
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