I have given up on a good number of ideas. I have run out of steam, overreached myself, had collaborators give up and also discovered that I was not as...

First off many people believe that SQL Server is self-administering. Whilst that is true to a certain degree it is only to a certain degree and is most efficient at...

As a developer I can confirm that the fire was definitely a requirement. 😛

Isn't it wrong that people are talking about ensuring that they have an opportunity to back up data before a patch is installed? Backups should be a continuously executed operation....

BI is the area that has shown the most advances in recent years from my perspective yet I have still yet to have a requirement that I was a party...

I like providing the data to Microsoft and other vendors as I believe that it can be valuable for me as a customer for my suppliers to be continually evaluating...

Have worked a few decades in this industry as well I have seen more roles come and go than actual jobs i.e. somebody might stop doing X as a job...

In my experience most updates occur simultaneously. Sometimes you get database changes that do not alter the interface (i.e. stored procedures and/or views are used and do not change their...