How very ironic. Just this week I was using that same DORA page for a presentation at work, before reading it here. I can't help but think that the mentions...

Rod, they could set up a central Git server, no cost at all, locally and then use that. It's going to be all command line driven (although I'm sure...

I feel for you, @Below86. I'd never heard of working from home (WFH) until the COVID pandemic. Once it happened, we were ordered to WFH full time, and I totally...

I've not heard of DbUp before. Thank you for the link!

This is one of the most important topics to me. Before the pandemic, I'd never heard of working remotely. I live in a state where the vast majority of companies...

Feature flags are something I've known about for 10+ years. I've never been able to get people to buy into feature flags where I currently work. I've made an example...

Steve, I didn't know that VS Code can work with Jupyter Notebooks! I've watched the YouTube video you linked to. I confess that when I've used Jupyter Notebooks in ADS I...

I am one of those who love using Azure Data Studio, so this announcement is sad news for me. When I mentioned that ADS has been retired in my team...

While I do not use ADS for development purposes, I do like the notebook aspect and its ability to connect to Postgres. I found the notebook interface an excellent...

The IIF operator is one that I use. Honestly, that's more because I've used it in MS Access and VB.NET.

At a PowerShell prompt when I run

sqllocaldb info mssqllocaldb

I get the following response:

Name: MSSQLLocalDB

Version: 15.0.4382.1

Shared name:

Owner: TARDIS\rodf

Auto-create: Yes

State: Stopped

Last start time: 1/8/2025 6:55:04 PM

Instance pipe name:

It looks...

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

WOW, I thought I had responded to this earlier this morning. I guess I failed to respond and some of my thoughts are now lost. So, here goes a shorten...

Thank you, Steve and Bob, for reminding me to have grace towards others who are having a rotten day. Like you said, I've no idea what went wrong to cause...

I don't know what to think of this advice. In my state government job, the IT division (I'm including both operations and developers) is about 200 people. As far as...