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Please Clean Up…
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NoSQL Survival Guide for Devs: How to Talk To your Data Architect
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What to Do When Your Data’s All Wrong…
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Einstein on Data
…can you read the formulae? Related posts: Please Clean Up… What to Do When Your Data’s All Wrong… Yeah, Those Strawberries #FailFriday
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Astronauts Know Everything…
Recently @VenusBarbie visited Europe for the ILATweetup and SpaceUPEU events. I wasn’t able to go due to other commitments, so Rob had to take over escort duties for our traveling Astronaut Barbie...
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Thinking This Might Be a Useful Set of Rules for PASS Summit Sessions…
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Metadata Stuffing: Why I Hate tbl_ for Table Names
This week was Canadian Thanksgiving so this post on metadata stuffing is timely. Today Thomas LaRock (@sqlrockstar | blog ) posted a rant about our Database Design Throwdown topic on naming...
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Friday Fun Contest: How Many TLAs Can You Fit In a Sentence?
It’s Friday again (we should have more of these) and I’m in the mood for a contest. I have some mystery prizes, more than just swag, to give away. But I’m not saying what it is until the contest is...
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5 Things to Do to Help Your Family’s Tech Ecosystem over the Holidays. With...
We tech professionals usually cringe at Cousin Ed’s "I’m having a problem with my computer…" conversation. It’s not that we don’t want to help; it’s that helping is often difficult to do verbally and...
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It’s Reorg Season…
If you work in a large organization, you probably have been through a number of reorganizations. You know how this works: your management chain changes, people get new titles, and maybe, if you are...
View ArticleHa Ha Ho Ho Ho–at North Pole, Inc.
Doug Laney, of Gartner, has penned a real piece of candy humour on his blog at http://blogs.gartner.com/doug-laney/gartner-shares-findings-from-north-pole-inc-big-data-assessment/. In this report on...
View ArticleNerds are the Biggest Danger to America
I’m pretty sure this is how most business people feel about IT. We should feel their pain a bit more, then work with them to solve their problems. Danger! Danger! I wonder what hidden cameras in...
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What IT Really Thinks of Business/IT Alignment
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#CSATweetup Trip Prep Fun #spacestache
Because everyone needs more moustache in their lives, right? I can’t wait to visit with Commander Hadfield via the International Space Station this Thursday at the Canadian Space Agency Day in the...
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What Are You For?
http://geek-and-poke.com/2012/06/no.html NoSQL started out as meaning “No SQL” as in “No Relational Databases”. It represented a movement to replace RDMBSs like SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, MySQL and...
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NULLs
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Pour Some Data On Me
Today’s SQL Server 2012 Anniversary question is: I thought the image I created above might inspire you. Follow @SQLServer on Twitter and answer their daily questions to win fame and prizes. Pour...
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Strutting: We all Know When You are Doing It. So Stop.
Rant Level: High. It’s Friday. I was reading an ACM blog post by Judy Robertson about strutting, a tactic used by audience members at event. Robertson discusses a specific type of this behaviour,...
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Stubborn @YanniRobel at the Big Hill
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