I like your take here Steve.  I would to add an addendum thought, which is "don't have to".  Over the years the skills required for  career growth, or even sustainability,...

Great post.  And I love that they mention Pensacola, Florida in Contact.  Their representation of Pensacola is more like a Caribbean island with hanging palm trees and coves than the...

Thank you for these, Steve.  I have been waiting for just this type of info for all of us DBA to Dev folk out here.

You should check our Broken Mirror on Netflix.  Quite Dystopian but genius I think.

Alexa, will there be a computer that can "think" and "reason" in the next 20 years?
"Sorry, I am not sure."
Alexa, can you think?
Sings Technology song.
Alexa, who...

I am glad you tackled this subject, Andy. I was brought up on good old UNIX and shell scripting was fun for me way back then when I had...

I would like to see Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and RADIX by A.A. Attanasio made into movies.

That is quite funny that you mention rebar, Jeff, as it was originally in this post. I had taken it out because the story was growing larger than a TempDB...

It was Margin Walker with the discordant axe blast right up front. I just listened to it again before posting this and the Pavlovian response is still strong within me....

I can grab the PDF no problem. It redirects from here to the simple-talk site but from there I can click the PDF and have it download immediately.

Rodney

Thanks Tony.

I will reach out to the editors at simple-talk and let them know.

Rodney

Early in my career, I made a lateral move to a small software development company from a secure government position where I was a mainframe computer operator and UNIX/Novell admin....

I believe you are right that it will be handled appropriately when scheduled. At least I have not had any issues. Design is different because now you will be fighting...