P-Town Artist Alley photo by Author Listening to music is important to my mental health. That is why I listen to KEXP. It brings new...

Photo by Author's Wife on Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown As I was playing around with the KEXP Playlist data, I realized that we have...

The Author Enjoying some Time at Patriot Place Maybe I'm just old, but AI algorithm playlists like Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora...

I reviewed The Missing Readme for the Geek Culture magazine and it's a little gem of a book filled with wisdom. I like the link to this...

and this is why... It's the full moon Autumn equinox is Wednesday Auspicious time for big changes I may hear great news... But mostly,...

I enjoyed writing the Snowflake articles. However, the computing time to write the queries cost me $25. In addition, the queries on my...

My articles made the cover of the Snowflake Medium Blog. Organize Role-Based Access in Snowflake using Stored Procedures and...

I just started reading The Missing Readme after an interesting interview on Software Engineer Daily. Some quick notes: It's written by...

I'm not Jewish, but early September has always felt like a new year to me. This year is no different. After a sometimes quiet,...

KEXP - Where the Music Matters As I searched for my daily fix of KEXP, I ran across a Tableau demo dashboard devoted to KEXP. Way to go,...

Those who know me well know that I am a Critter and an avid Table Top Role Playing game fan. For those that don't know about Critical...

There, I said it, I enjoy every declarative language I use HTML SQL JSON YAML These languages - modern or anachronistic - are just...

Securing data access is a pathway problem, and that makes it hard. On a toy database presented in a blog article, you might have two or...

Photo by Author Modern Database Administrators face significant security challenges on cloud-enabled databases like Snowflake. Whether...

I've been disappointed with the lack of good BI tools for years. Tableau is too enterprisey. PowerBI has a Windows taint that makes it...

Photo by Author I imagine myself as a grumpy DBA some ten years previous and getting the task of assessing security on a database with...

Seriously... But I am reviewing database security protocols, starting with this article from Oracle https://download.oracle.com/database/...

Twenty years ago, I sat in front of the hummingbird feeder at my cabin in Colorado and imagined a life where I lived and worked in the...