Great picture, and what a genius to think of that! Thanks for sharing it!

As evidenced by the recent data theft here on the east coast of the US, where...

I work for a foreign-owned company and a few years ago they had to institute some new policies around blogging and cell phone use on the job.

People are permitted to...

I am tired of this debate and can only address it as I know it...

The best DBAs that I have seen, worked with, or had work for me, DID NOT...

What a topical editorial!

Just two weeks ago we were dealing with a client where two of their staff, one a DBA, and one a "SQL Expert" proved to me just...

I'd say it's more bureaucracy. They're so large, and they're not one person. No one decides on SQL Server, it's a lot of little teams that try to balance what...

To take such a popular quote, which by the way you credit to "Field of Dreams" but allegedly actually comes from a Roman politician referring to the building of the...

As much as this is a good editorial, with good advice, it did leave one conundrum unaddressed...

If you say "Don't use auto-shrink" or any such advice coming from a seasoned...

The problem with usage based pricing, and this is always the problem - is that no one ever mentions any 'insurance' or coverage for lost productivity due to poor software...

Thanks for the handy search tool! Very nice work! ...and also a very nice looking utility.

And with that thought in mind, when you say "Developing software in companies...

Speaking as a former Air Force officer, your point is well taken, but unless you have lived a while in the co-joined reality and fantasy of the service, you don't...

You missed the BIGGEST point, and BIGGEST failing about Hungarian notation.

Hungarian notation presumes that EVERY developer in the world types using Times New Roman font. I have...

It used to be that software and systems development was a creative practice, then came this panacea of "best practices" as though there is only one way to do things,...

I completely agree with Steve on this one... Arguments about who does what with SQL Express and that there is no DBA involved are hardly adequate when one is...

I hate to throw a whine at you, but your post presumes that all over the world a DBA can be measured to have the same basic skills from one...

During the years the great physicist and futurist Arno Penzias worked at Bell Labs, he penned a diatribe on the increasing complexity of systems and how that would eventually limit...