Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

Theologies that indulge and center our group identities aren’t faithful. They decenter Christ and belittle our neighbors. Faithful friend from flatt’ring foe. This insight closely mirrors the wisdom ...

If you've worked in any data-centric role, you've probably experienced the effects of the proverbial "mandate from on high." Someone in the C-suite decides it's time to hop on the latest shift in the ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...

A few days ago, the following question was posed in a WhatsApp chatgroup. “Do Caribbean people see themselves as African?” Let us drill down on it a bit. We are Caribbean peoples. Which by definition ...

Jesuits came to the United States in 1700, which, of course, means we were not yet the United States. They set up in the Louisiana Territory and were some of the first explorers of the mighty ...

On Mar. 2, 2025, Basel Adra made history as the first Palestinian filmmaker to win an Oscar. The documentary by him, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham — “No Other Land” — won Best ...

When the Chicago Bulls dealt Alex Caruso to the Oklahoma City Thunder in June, many fans scratched their heads. It was no secret that Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Artūras ...