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#SQLLinkBait Contest Winner (CLICK HERE NOW!)…
Recently on Twitter I ran a fun contest to come up with the best SQL blog post title link bait. Link baiting is a controversial approach to blogging. The term itself is controversial actually. In...
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The Minimalist DBA: DBA Fundamentals
What do you think are the minimum skills a person should have before they are allowed to manage a database? Does it matter whether or not it’s a production database? Does it matter how much data is...
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Your Christmas Cookies Can Teach You About Data: Sugar Cookies
I don’t do a lot of baking. My kitchen is mostly the place where I blend my breakfast and enable my caffeine addiction. But my family has a tradition of making dozens and dozens of cookies every...
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To Santa with Love, Kitty
Dear Santa, My friend and debate foe victim Thomas LaRock ( blog | @sqlrockstar) sent you some last minute gift advice for organizations who need your help. That got me thinking, so I made a list,...
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Data Will Confess to Anything….
via Thomas LaRock ( blog | @sqlrockstar ) Remember this the next time you see some statistics. Or a report. Or anything that appears on Wikipedia. Related posts: Please Clean Up… What to Do When...
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Worst Bar Chart* of 2014–We May Already Have a Winner
Update: It appears that this chart and other data visualizations have been removed from the website and report. I’m hoping that means that the authors will be refactoring them with improved...
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Refactoring Computer Engineer Barbie
In mid-January I came across a link to a story about a new book by Random House called Barbie I Can Be…A Computer Engineer. As you know, I travel with a Computer Engineer Barbie (@data_model) and...
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Romancing the Data….
Today is Valentine’s Day in many parts of the the world. That means either you are looking forward to a happy day full of fun and a night full of …fun… or you are are planning on catching up with...
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Data Modeling…Data, Numbers and Bikinis
My Twitter friend Geoff Crane ( blog | @papercutpm ) made this for me today. So I’ll just leave it here for you. Related posts: 7 Mistakes You *CAN* Afford to Make Was I Too Snarky? A Big Data NoSQL...
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Rob Ford’s Achilles Data Management
I don’t usually blog about politics here, but when bad data management and bad people mix, it’s time for a post… Toronto Star reporter Robyn Doolittle has reported that my world famous (infamous?)...
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I Welcome You All to Cloud Cuckoo Land! #NoSQLKitty
I introduce to you, NoSQKitty With this dialog, I had to do this. I had no choice, really. Trust me. Just ask Biznis Kitty. Emmet: I’m just gonna come right out, I have no idea what’s going on or...
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SQL Server 2014: New Datatype
Today is the general availability release date for the newest version of SQL Server, aptly named SQL Server 2014. I’m excited about many of the new features being rolled out today, but the ones that...
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Make Your Data Work for You
Related posts: 7 Mistakes You *CAN* Afford to Make What to Do When Your Data’s All Wrong… Your Christmas Cookies Can Teach You About Data: Sugar Cookies
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It’s Just a Hardware Problem…
Related posts: What to Do When Your Data’s All Wrong… Data Will Confess to Anything…. Please Clean Up…
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#SQLPASS #SUMMIT14 #MVPSUMMIT Checklist–50 Things Not to Leave Behind
shared some of these on Twitter, but I decided to pull them all together in one place. There’s be a lot of tips shared prior to these events, but I think these haven’t been covered nearly enough....
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I’m all ‘bout the data…
Related posts: Data Will Confess to Anything…. I Welcome You All to Cloud Cuckoo Land! #NoSQLKitty It’s Just a Hardware Problem…
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Yeah My Mama She Told Me Don’t Worry About Your JOINs
(with apologies to Meghan Trainor) Because you know I’m all about the data ‘Bout the data, no trouble I’m all about the data ‘Bout the data, no trouble I’m all about the data ‘Bout the data, no...
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Hacking Database Design
I get asked to help teams increase the performance of their database (hint: indexes, query tuning and correct datatypes, in that order) or to help the scale it out for increasing workloads. But when...
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What Your Database Security Design….
…looks like to me. Sure, you’ve got your own home-grown database security system all designed and working in development. And then you ask me to confirm that it’s “safe”. I’ll tell ya “it’s safe as...
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Database Design Throwdown, Texas Style
It’s a new year and I’ve given Thomas LaRock (@@sqlrockstar | blog ) a few months to recover and ramp up his training since our last Throwdown. The trophies from all my wins are really cluttering my...
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