Category: NonSQL

Want to lose #20PoundsBeforeTheSummit? Join the #GetHawt competition!

We here in the IT community are clearly concerned about our weight. More specifically, we’re concerned about our weight going up and up like a growth chart for a high-transaction OTLP database. (SQL tie-in for ya, there.) Starting to move… We’re starting to do something about it. I know people in the SQL community on […]

How to Build a Resume (that doesn’t suck)

Resumes are like opinions, which are like something else: everybody’s got one. And if you don’t have one, then certain key functions are very hard to perform.  In this case, not having a resume makes the job-getting difficult. We’ve talked about resumes, and even reviewed a few, on the show (here and here) and on […]

Un-SQL Friday: Stop SOPA!

This will be an unusually political Un-SQL Friday – and it’s two days early, to boot – but I’m making an exception to my no-politics-in-SQL rule – because it’s about internet freedoms. I hereby declare this WEDNESDAY Un-SQL Friday. While T-SQL Tuesday is “…the SQL Server blogosphere’s first recurring, revolving blog party….on the chosen [SQL-related] […]