Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials SSRS is Still Around The other day, a friend asked me if Microsoft is discontinuing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) now that Power BI... 20 November 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials The Ignite Conference Brought News and Changes The first week of November was a big week for Microsoft. They made many announcements at the Ignite conference about... 11 November 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Moving on from Volunteer Projects I can’t remember a time when I was not involved in side-projects, usually as a volunteer but also writing books... 23 October 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Lessons Learned From Modelling Clay I never allowed my children play with modelling clay in my home when they were young, but changed my mind... 06 October 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kendra Little in Editorials SQL Server Management Studio is as Relevant as Ever After fifteen years of heavy usage by developers and DBAs, it might seem like Microsoft’s free tool, SQL Server Management... 24 September 2019 3 min read
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
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
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
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
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Measuring the Right Things In my previous career many years ago, I worked at a hospital along with about ten other pharmacists. The department... 23 July 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
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
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
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Why DBAs Must Embrace DevOps A good day for a database administrator (DBA) is a lot like a good airline flight. A lot of excitement... 09 May 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kendra Little in Editorials What is Automation? Today I got a bit closer to a meaningful definition of automation as it applies to the software development process.... 30 April 2019 5 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
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Scary Stories from the Trenches If you have worked with databases long enough, you probably have many frightening stories to tell about things that have... 03 April 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kendra Little in Editorials Why You Shouldn’t Hardcode the Current Database Name in Your Views, Functions, and Stored Procedures “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things” Phil Karlton I’m terrible at naming... 12 March 2019 4 min read
