Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials The Data-Philes Team Meet the Time Traveler The year is 1999, somewhere in Cambridge, UK. Kathi, a member of the Data-Philes team, is reading a memo sent... 11 September 2019 4 min read
T-SQL Programming Dennes Torres in T-SQL Programming SQL Server 2019 Graph Database and SHORTEST_PATH With SQL Server 2019 on the way, it’s time to begin learning about all the new features. In this article,... 11 September 2019 13 min read
PowerShell Greg Moore in PowerShell PowerShell and Secure Strings Greg Moore demonstrates how to work with the Get-Credential PowerShell cmdlet and secure strings when authenticating to an SFTP server.... 22 August 2019 13 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Goodbye to the Microsoft Professional Program I’ve worked with Microsoft technologies for over 20 years and, during that time, earned a good income to support my... 21 August 2019 3 min read
.NET Lance Talbert in .NET Customizable Characters in Unity One of the hallmark features of video games is the ability to choose or even customize your character. In this... 20 August 2019 14 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Hiding What You Shouldn’t See Back when I was working on a master’s degree, one of our professors told us a story about a colleague... 12 August 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials SQL Server 2019: Features for the Rest of Us I was talking recently with a friend about features of SQL Server 2019 (still in CTP at the time of... 10 July 2019 4 min read
.NET Lance Talbert in .NET Using Attributes with Unity Attributes in Unity allow you to add features like strings and menu items to objects. In this article, Lance Talbert... 08 July 2019 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Rodney Landrum in T-SQL Programming A MongoDB to SQL Server Migration: Data Typing and Un-nesting Importing data from one system to another is a common task for database professionals. It’s possible to spend a lot... 20 June 2019 15 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Keeping Kids Busy During Long School Breaks Now that school is out for the summer, my grandson Thomas is spending quite a bit of time at our... 19 June 2019 3 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials Building a Great Technical Team The process of putting together a team of technical people once was largely centered around getting a group of similarly... 12 June 2019 4 min read
Career Samuel Nitsche in Career Improving Tech with Compassionate Code There is quite a bit of suffering within tech and caused by tech, from poorly commented code to shaming someone... 07 June 2019 12 min read
.NET Lance Talbert in .NET Building a Level Editor in Unity A level in a game is the player’s world. It’s possible to create levels that the player can manipulate. In... 03 June 2019 31 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Innovation: A Double-edged Sword We humans have been the most successful animals on earth. We’ve accomplished this by changing the environment to suit our... 28 May 2019 3 min read
NoSQL Adam Aspin in NoSQL SQL For Cosmos DB – Handling Complex JSON Structures The JSON documents that are part of Cosmos DB document collections can be complex with arrays and nesting. In this... 13 May 2019 16 min read
Oracle David Njoku in Oracle Oracle for Absolute Beginners: Problem-Solving as a New Developer Learning programming logic and syntax is just the beginning. In this article, David Njoku talks about how to debug and... 30 April 2019 9 min read
.NET Julio Sampaio in .NET Building an Angular Application with ASP.NET Core There are many options today when it comes to developing applications. In this article, Julio Sampaio demonstrates how to create... 25 April 2019 20 min read
Security Robert Sheldon in Security Introduction to SQL Server Security — Part 5 SQL Server contains many built-in views and functions that can be used to understand what is going on “under the... 23 April 2019 21 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials The Future of Medicine If you are a Star Trek fan, you’ve seen the future of medicine, or at least how the writers imagine... 17 April 2019 3 min read
Performance Samir Behara in Performance Designing Highly Scalable Database Architectures While architecting cloud native applications, you need to ensure that your system is highly available, performant, scalable, fault tolerant, and... 09 April 2019 13 min read
