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At the beginning over every year many of us take the time to cobble together some resolutions for the coming year. We plan to lose weight, save money, stop smoking, and so on. Usually, it doesn’t take long before we’ve abandoned these resolutions.
Perhaps we’d be wiser to make some business related resolutions. With that ...
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Organizations often force the DBA to take on the job
of data modeling. That does not mean that DBAs are
well trained in data modeling, nor does it mean that
DBAs are best suited to take on the task of data
modeling. Data administration (DA) ...
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One of the more popular topics for my blog has been IT salaries -- more accurately, salaries for data professionals -- so every time I hear about some new survey or news related to salaries I fire up the blog and get to posting.
Today's news comes from the Dice 2008-09 Annual Salary Survey of technology professionals. This survey of more than ...
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The web is a rich and fertile source of
data-related information. But tracking things down on the web can sometimes
be difficult – especially if you do not know where to look. Several good
sources of DBMS information on the web can be found by reviewing the web sites
of DBMS vendors, database tool vendors, magazine sites and consultant ...
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As my regular readers know every now and then I take the time to share some of my favorite quotes and how they apply to database professionals... this is one of those posts!
One of my favorites comes from the famous behavorial psychologist, B.F. Skinner, who said:
"It isn't that they can't see the solution.
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OK, so nobody can know-it-all about any topic, let alone data. But I thought the title of today's blog entry might be enticing enough to get you to read about a new book series from publisher Morgan Kaufmann named, appropriately enough, know-it-all. The idea behind this book series is to compile useful information from many experts into a ...
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In today's blog entry we look for inspiration in some non-standard places as we progress happily through our day-to-day IT jobs. Often times, when the business of Information Technology frustrates me, I look for inspiration in what may seem at first glance to be odd places. For instance, I think the Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland books ...
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