"Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.Dave: What’s the problem?HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as...
2025-12-08 (first published: 2025-11-24)
143 reads
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.""How do you know...
2025-10-31 (first published: 2025-10-13)
307 reads
(2025-Aug-04) Taking my last week of vacation and then volunteering at a children's summer camp has been part of my plan since last year, when I did the same thing....
2025-08-05
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(2025-July-06) Very often, real-time, high-speed streams of events come from IoT devices, social media logs, website user interactions, and financial transactions. So, working with streaming datasets can place you...
2025-07-07
168 reads
(2025-June-30) Working with different abbreviations or acronyms can speed up communication, but at the same time, it can exclude those who are not familiar with them. Sometimes this exclusion happens...
2025-07-01 (first published: 2025-06-30)
97 reads
(2025-June-15) Long gone are the days when a data engineer could simply focus on building a new data integration solution. You’d establish connections to one or more source datasets, review...
2025-06-30 (first published: 2025-06-16)
427 reads
(2025-Feb-12) I will jump straight to the problem statement without a "boring" introduction, which, in a sense, already feels like an opening statement.Moving data between two or more endpoints is...
2025-02-24 (first published: 2025-02-12)
452 reads
“Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”— Lewis...
2025-01-24 (first published: 2025-01-13)
379 reads
"Stories are where memories go when they are forgotten" - Doctor Who.(2024-Sep-13) As September quickly moves forward, with schools starting and kids returning to their routines, the memories of the...
2024-09-27 (first published: 2024-09-13)
150 reads
(2024-Mar-16) I have been a big fan of using the Excel application for various tasks for more than half of my life. I believe it's the most widely used spreadsheet...
2024-03-25 (first published: 2024-03-16)
262 reads
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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