Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Taking Time Away from Work As I write this, my mind is focused on my big holiday trip, just two days away. It’s a trip... 20 June 2018 3 min read
Editorials Dean Mathews in Editorials Why Business Leaders Must Foster a Company Culture At the center of all businesses is a company culture. This culture exists whether the leaders created it or not.... 14 June 2018 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Do We Really Care About Privacy? You may have noticed a recent flurry of activity in your email inbox as many companies sent out new privacy... 01 June 2018 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials One Space or Two? Typewriters have become rare over the past twenty years or so as we began to use computers more often at... 17 May 2018 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Why Database Administrators Need Monitoring Tools I was recently asked about which tools I used back when I was a full-time SQL Server database administrator. I... 02 May 2018 3 min read
Editorials Dean Mathews in Editorials When You Need A DBA: Inhouse Vs Outsourced One big question for software developers and IT departments in small companies is always “should I hire a DBA?” The fact... 17 April 2018 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials The Facebook Fiasco About ten years ago, my friends and family were abandoning their Myspace accounts and heading to Facebook. I fought it... 08 April 2018 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Be Prepared when Disaster Strikes It was a rough winter for flying in and out of Heathrow as the UK experienced unusually cold and snowy... 20 March 2018 3 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
Editorials Dean Mathews in Editorials Why You Need a Time-Management Strategy Time management is simply the ability to plan how and where you spend your time throughout the work day. When... 19 February 2018 3 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
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Working from Home I’ve been fortunate enough to work from my home office for the past six years. My commute is about twelve... 07 February 2018 3 min read
Career Monica Rathbun in Career How to Survive as a Lone DBA Database administrators have enormous responsibility whether they manage one or hundreds of servers. Monica Rathbun tells us how she survived... 06 February 2018 16 min read
Career Cynthia Dzikiti in Career Quality-Driven Software Development While software is among the most widely used products in human history, it also has one of the highest failure... 25 January 2018 22 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
Editorials Dean Mathews in Editorials How to Know When It’s Time to Hire a DBA There are many reasons why one would consider hiring a professional database administrator (DBA). You may be concerned about user... 24 January 2018 3 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
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Time Off Time is a precious commodity, and so much of our time is dedicated to working. IT professionals often have jobs... 09 January 2018 3 min read
Career Rama Anem in Career Software Testing Skills Must Shift with AI Artificial intelligence (AI) is touching many parts of our lives and careers. Rama Anem discusses the impact of AI on... 09 January 2018 10 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Self-improvement: Uniquely Human There are many things that separate humans from other animals. One of those things is our interest in improving ourselves.... 27 December 2017 3 min read
