Like too many of us, I’ve been fighting a nasty bout of the cold or flu or whatever it is that’s going around. And while I’ve been enjoying (!) the exhaustion and inability to think straight actually got me thinking about the many things that keep systems running so you’re not on the hook 24/7. One of the things that […]
Author: Stephen Wynkoop
A Request for You
We’re getting rolling on the next upcoming SSWUG.ORG virtual conference. We’ll be looking for speakers who are passionate about their favorite technologies, who have opinions on the way to get things done and have stories to share about what goes right, what goes wrong. It’s not all about tweaking this or that technology – it’s also about platforms, tools, a […]
Data Archives, Privacy and Data Protection (and the GDPR)
Several posts of late have had to do with data privacy, protecting information, etc., but from the standpoint of what does this mean for our systems and our work with data… I think the implications are critical planning points for systems going forward. For me at least, when I’ve traditional built systems, once the data is acquired, it’s kept. We […]
Privacy and Data Protection is a Moving Target
It seems that exactly WHAT makes up privacy and what data is ok to use, what is not ok to use, is an incredibly fast-moving target. I remember when Netflix was initially ramping up their streaming services – back in the early days of original content for them. They had just released (I think) season 2 of House of Cards […]
Does the Cloud Force Data Silos?
As we’ve been working with different people, and, embarrassingly, our own systems, I’ve been noticing a trend. It’s been bugging me for a while now, but I’ve not really been able to put words to it. I mentioned in the prior editorial that multi-platform was important. Basically, use the right tool for the job at hand. And then I noticed […]
Multi-Platform Development – a Pro or Con?
In working with different companies to try to define how they’ll best move forward with their data requirements, it’s increasingly obvious that multi-platform, where you have multiple database systems on tap to provide support for requirements, is an ideal solution. By embracing the platform-agnostic approach, and looking at the requirements and using those to determine what options to consider, you […]
MySQL, Powershell, SQL Server, RDS and the SSWUG.org Newsletter
It’s been a bit of a stressful ride around here at SSWUG.ORG of late. We made a significant update to our systems and in doing so, exposed a couple of surprised in compatibility between on-premises, owned SQL Server and SQL Server in the cloud, in this case, Amazon’s RDS. Would I do it again? In a heartbeat. I messed up […]
My Data is My Data, Your Data is My Data…?
Interesting responses to the whole post on Friday about whether you can be compelled to share your data in a legal sense. The article I linked to was about Microsoft/LinkedIn being compelled to make their data available, really without regard to whether they wanted to or not. This was the gist of my question. What surprised me was the quite broad […]
Can You Be (Legally) Compelled to Share Your Data?
There’s a recent decision that caught my eye about Microsoft, LinkedIn and ownership and presentation of data. Specifically, whether LinkedIn is allowed (!) to protect their data and filter/present it as they wish, or not present it depending on their desires. Here’s a link to the post It seems to me like this is a bizarre, slippery slope. Heck, perhaps […]
But DBAs Are Dead!!!
It always makes me laugh when I read that the position of DBA (in whatever form) is going away. Wrapping up “data management” into that title, you have administrative DBAs, data managers, all of that – and the tools that manage those flows and make it useful all fall in the database management realm. When you talk with people that […]