Louis Davidson in Blogs The Theme of the Day: Theme Recently, I was attending a tech conference, and a topic caught my ear at the speaker dinner. Sam Shaw, who... 01 July 2024 5 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs To Specialize or Generalize, That is My Question One of the big bits of advice that people like to give in the technology community is career advice. Do... 12 June 2024 3 min read
Phil Factor in Editorials Technology For Humanity There was a time, when I was in a team that was designing an important IT system for a multinational... 01 May 2024 3 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials Giving Feedback on Microsoft Data Platform Tools As a data professional, there is a set of tools that you use on pretty much a daily basis. Before... 08 April 2024 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Lies you should believe: There are no dumb ideas When I was a brainstorming ideas for a series of posts, it took me back to a brainstorming session we... 22 March 2024 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Planning, the First Step To Failure You probably have heard the saying “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. I get the sentiment here,... 09 February 2024 4 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Working on Technology Off the Clock I have always spent time learning relational databases on my own, non-work time. As the years have passed, I have... 16 January 2024 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Being A Bit Less Comfortable in 2024 I hate coming up with ideas for editorials, but my last editorial of the year gives me a very simple... 03 January 2024 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs What Counts For a DBA: Duty It has been a long month. We had the PASS Data Community Summit just a month ago, and I came... 08 December 2023 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Autonomous Databases? I was talking to some people today about the concept of Autonomous Databases. The idea is that the database platform... 15 November 2023 3 min read
Editorials Jason Romans in Editorials Pike’s Market to Pikes Peak: The PASS Summit is Worth the Journey Recently I spoke at SQL Saturday Denver. The day after the conference we went to visit Pikes Peak Mountain. You... 26 October 2023 9 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs What Counts for a DBA: Preparation While preparing for this career as an editor, my mind went to the joys of sitting at a computer editing... 23 October 2023 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs The Most Valuable, Undesirable Thing: Feedback In 1964, the Beatles added something interesting to one of their songs. I Feel Fine started out with a twang... 05 October 2023 3 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials The Challenges of Making a Conference Schedule Over the past 10 years, I have been involved in scheduling speakers at several conferences, most notably the PASS Data... 14 September 2023 4 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials How much has data technology changed over the years? The simple answer to this question is “a lot.” The funny part, however, is that everyone who reads that question... 16 August 2023 4 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials It’s Only Summer, but I am ready for PASS Data Community Summit Now! The PASS Data Community Summit 2023 happens the week of November 12 in Seattle. WA. It will be my first... 13 July 2023 4 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs What Counts for a DBA – Discretion I was looking at the list of topics I have talked about in my “What Counts for a DBA” posts... 12 July 2023 3 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials The Value of Adventure One of the things that makes you a well-rounded person is adventure. But often, when one thinks of adventure, they... 25 June 2023 3 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials The Importance of Tact The concept of tact is simple. Telling people truths, often harsh truths, without making it seem harsh. Hopefully, it is... 30 May 2023 3 min read
Editorials Phil Factor in Editorials Xerox stars for accessibility I was working for Xerox when the Xerox Star, precursor to all the computer systems in use today, was introduced.... 08 May 2023 3 min read
