Do you want me to tell you the truth or do you want me to tell you what you want to hear?
We live in a Dilbert age.
If you are a DBA and have worked in organizations of any size you are...
2013-09-28
1,725 reads
@chuckboycejr
I am on LinkedIn
I don't know why, but I never "got" LinkedIn and I ended up leaving it in frustration as I was...
2013-09-21
715 reads
Is Microsoft attempting to "de-skill" IT Pros in its attempt to increase its Cloud business?
When I first heard of the MCM program termination discontent, I reacted by sympathizing with my fellow Database Professionals but...
2013-09-05
968 reads
Working Class Hero
I could tell you a story about Green Day's cover of John Lennon's classic "Working Class Hero" that you wouldn't...
2013-08-29
811 reads
2013-08-23
720 reads
OT: privacy
I had a very unpleasant experience a while back when I was commenting anonymously on a web site (not SQL...
2013-08-06
590 reads
energy
Back when I was trying to start a business and unknowingly heading towards a economic cliff, I read all sorts...
2013-07-10
588 reads
freedom
I was thinking back fondly of my Dad - who passed away during Hurricane Sandy - this past Father's Day. Of the...
2013-07-03
561 reads
SQL Server 2000 is unsupported
Microsoft no longer supports SQL Server 2000 in any capacity.
http://youtu.be/A5cneCgNA9U
2013-04-10
819 reads
Carry On
Sometimes the answer is to keep going.
Forget words, figuring things out, and circumstances. Just keep moving your feet.
~Chuck
"Nothing in the...
2013-04-09
617 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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