I finished the EDX program early this year.
My experience has been recruiters and companies aren't caring about the education, even with the Microsoft name behind it, and even with...

My local SQLSat in Minneapolis (Minnesota USA) is fantastic & I get to every one.

I've been able to time my work at the company plant so I can attend Oklahoma...

I'm pushing 4 years at current company, normally would have cut my losses at 2 years for reason of no meaningful technical projects. Just being thrown at business BA/PM...

Is the implication that being on an unsupported platform is out of compliance? Is that written fact by a government or standards body, or a common interpretation by auditors?

You said April 12, 2016 as a date to be out of compliance, but didn't give any details on what makes that date important.

Can you share more info & a...

Beyond the question of which answer is right, I want to know why I care. The poster of this QOTD must have thought there was something interesting or helpful...

Like the question, made me think.

Almost went for the "both procs" answer - asking myself "what was this person trying to point out here, usually something unexpected". To me getting...

Being a cycling nut I had a dream, and still hold to it: work with a bike/accessory manufacturer or distributor, doing deep analysis of market potential -- adding in surveys,...

To ask the silly and obvious: Are they both either compressed or uncompressed?

Doing full as compressed & diffs as uncompressed could get you that closeness in size.

I see this as a "it depends" situation, like pretty much everything in the DB world. My experience is with a MS-Dynamics AX database, creating copies for a test...

It's not just US as DBAs that have to deal with SP vs CU, it's all the vendors for the DBs we run. I have very few vendors that...

As noted previously, SQL itself doesn't care.

What does sometimes care is antivirus (not to start a thread on good idea or not, just that some shops do run AV and...

What I know is from evaluating various BI packages, including a deep look & trial of Qlik View. Qlik View has ups & downs, and you need to decide...

On your point regarding variable length parameters, I've seen Subsonic (ORM) do this behavior too. I figured it what was happening when I started digging into why my proc...

I'd vote no contract of work. I am where I am today because my jobs never stick to a list of duties - I get to see technologies outside...