Opinion Pieces Simple Talk Editor in Opinion Pieces Writing your 2024 PASS Data Community Summit Submission It is time again for the PASS Data Community Summit Call For Speakers. Some of you are very ready. You... 05 March 2024 10 min read
Opinion Pieces Dennes Torres in Opinion Pieces The Fashionable Truth About AI Over the past year, the topic of AI has really blown up in the general public. However, AI was already... 06 February 2024 14 min read
Database DevOps Kendra Little in Database DevOps The Two Ways Containers Will Revolutionize Database DevOps Containers have already transformed the way application development works, but adoption has been slower for databases. Finally, the revolution is... 17 August 2020 8 min read
Theory and design Joe Celko in Theory and design Yes and No Questions Are Not So Simple Joe Celko explains why questions requiring yes or no answers are more complicated than you might realize in both spoken... 07 August 2019 8 min read
Opinion Pieces Alamzeb Khan in Opinion Pieces Cyber Insecurity in Pakistan Journalist Alamzeb Khan discusses recent security breaches in Pakistan that have affected millions of people and accounts. … 02 January 2019 11 min read
Opinion Pieces William Brewer in Opinion Pieces Data Retention: An Inexact Art A myriad of laws regulate data retention and generally compete with each other. William Brewer provides an introduction to the... 19 March 2018 16 min read
Opinion Pieces William Brewer in Opinion Pieces Questions About Data Breaches that You Were Too Shy to Ask News reports about data breaches are common occurrences. Even the companies that exist to keep our data safe are not... 09 February 2018 16 min read
Opinion Pieces Joe Celko in Opinion Pieces Degree of Duplication Technology is constantly moving forward, but it is also helpful to understand how we arrived where we are today. Joe... 25 January 2018 13 min read
Opinion Pieces William Brewer in Opinion Pieces Questions about Data Governance that You Were Too Shy to Ask A company’s data is one of its most valuable and important resources. Managing and protecting that data are big responsibilities,... 24 January 2018 16 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Validation, Verification, and Modification A proper database design is very important, and changes to fix problems after the fact are expensive. In this article,... 26 December 2017 20 min read
Opinion Pieces William Brewer in Opinion Pieces Questions about Data Masking That You Were Too Shy to Ask The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in effect in May of 2018. Data masking is one technique that... 30 November 2017 10 min read
Opinion Pieces Phil Factor in Opinion Pieces The Power of Three and the Wooden Computer The mystery of one of the almost-forgotten pioneers of the computer starts Phil Factor on a quest to explore and... 15 November 2017 37 min read
Opinion Pieces William Brewer in Opinion Pieces Questions About the GDPR That You Were Too Shy to Ask The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect organisations in countries around the world, not just those in Europe. The... 14 November 2017 15 min read
Database Administration Robert Sheldon in Database Administration Even More SQL Server Features that Time Forgot SQL Server works well, and Microsoft does everything it can to keep it relevant and competitive: As with everything in... 18 October 2017 13 min read
Software Delivery Mohammad Rizvi in Software Delivery How Can DevOps Concepts Provide Value in Digital Transformation Projects? For some of us, DevOps means startups, cloud, fast-moving social media applications and Extreme Programming (XP). What about large corporate... 04 October 2017 12 min read
Database Administration Robert Sheldon in Database Administration More SQL Server Features that Time Forgot SQL Server produces some great features, but it would be impossible to get them spot-on target every time. We are... 20 September 2017 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Missing Data In the real world of business or scientific reporting and analysis, data can prove to be awkward. It can be... 08 September 2017 11 min read
Software Delivery Mohammad Rizvi in Software Delivery Providing the Necessary Tools and Reports for Very Large IT Projects For the larger development project using Agile/DevOps, there will always be the problem of comprehensive tooling and reporting. An all-encompassing... 06 September 2017 15 min read
Jackie Barre Mixing MongoDB and Relational Databases in the Enterprise Your Agile developers want MongoDB, or a similar document database: your Ops people are concerned about security and backup, and... 24 August 2017 9 min read
Opinion Pieces Robert Sheldon in Opinion Pieces The SQL Server Features that Time Forgot Every new release of SQL Server comes with new features that cause a ripple of excitement within the industry: well,... 23 August 2017 12 min read
