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Voice of the DBA

Welcome to the Voice of the DBA, thoughts from Steve Jones on databases, SQL Server, and life.

Aug 29, 2024

I had someone ask me about DuckDB recently. Would I think that's a good choice for a database. I don't really know. From their blog and some online research, maybe, but it's also a minority player in a niche space.

I had a chat recently with someone that had implemented ArangoDB, a graph database. Why that and not Neo4J...


Aug 27, 2024

I've heard of Kafka before. I know it's an Apache project and you can download or read more at https://kafka.apache.org/. I knew it was a way of moving data around, some sort of ETL tool useful for moving things around. More like a message and queueing system, which is a tool that seems like a great idea, but one that...


Aug 22, 2024

I know a lot of people in this business do not have computer science degrees. While some do, I suspect it's a minority. I'm certainly curious, so if you want to share your education experience in a comment, tell me if you have a degree and what the focus was, as well as answer a few other questions.

At DevOps Days in...


Aug 18, 2024

A few weeks ago, I was sitting in the audience, waiting for my turn to speak at DevOps Days in Minneapolis. Just before me, Xe Iaso delivered a funny and thought-provoking talk on building a social network on a whiteboard. It was very well done and had me feeling nervous about following that session.

The talk is a bit...


Aug 15, 2024

Many years ago I was training for a triathlon. I had competed in the Sandman Triathlon the previous year in Virginia Beach and wanted to do it again. I had a young child, work was busy, and I was struggling to find time to swim, bike, and run every week. One night, I was at a work event with a customer who was also a...