Hadoop! I forgot about that one, good reminder David.

Just to be clear: I don't wanna make it sound like I don't like AI. I do, and I use it every...

I already use AI and love it, but I'm more concerned about Microsoft's particular implementation.

The demos I've seen have been half-baked at best. They required a lot of copy/pasting data...

Referring to private data centers, you wrote:

The cost of running them privately will exceed that of what vendors will charge.

I think that's true if:

• You're comparing apples to apples -...

HAHAHA, seagull management, that's great.

Steve's actually only 29 years old. It's just that he works really hard. You shouldn't bring it up though - he's very...

Keep a prioritized list of the tasks you're working on. Personally, I use RememberTheMilk.com, but...

I think virtualized desktops are the path forward. Yes, is you lose internet connectivity, then a device used as a RDP client is useless, but that's basically how it...

One of the presenters at SQLSaturday Boston had a similar 2-minute auto-lock on his corporate laptop. It was amusing to see as it kept popping out of PowerPoint every minute...

It's really frustrating in the Microsoft community because thousands of us will upvote a seemingly small item on Feedback.Azure.com - like dark mode in SSMS, or the ability to restore...

The reason why I'm calling it is that there's near-zero adoption of 2022 development servers.

I didn't see that with 2019 - people started putting it into development environments right away,...

@Wingenious it feels like you're focusing a lot of energy on the competition.

Software isn't like Field of Dreams: if you build it, they don't just come.

You have to constantly evangelize...

My favorite response on that one was, "Wait, why wouldn't SQL Server have nested transactions?" The client developer was just utterly dumbfounded.

Me: "Well, why WOULD it?"

Developer: "It just has to...

Thanks for the mention, sir!

You're leading an awesome life, for sure. I love watching your adventures on Instagram. You're leavin' it all on the floor.

Thanks for the shout out, sir!