Attendance dropped last year at the local PASS group due to stupid politics. There was a schism in the leadership and the group lost a lot of the people, (some...

Certification of third parties are worthless. Target (the retail corporation) had certifications.

I was out yesterday, and a few projects came to a halt. Basically my plan is to wait till I'm overloaded and the company refuses to hire more people or...

A quick (and slightly biased) question: I am a developer whose only community that I am active on is this, so how many of you DBAs are active on developer...

I'm thankful for my job which gives lots of material to post on the WTF site while looking for a real job... 😀

I'm a student of Master Sean McCown and his attitude towards being an Enterprise DBA: Let's script or automate everything!

If it's any consolation, patching in other OSes (Linux, xBSD) is both better and worse at the same time. Package management, testing and dependencies can still be a bloody mess...

Surface Pros would a nice machine for me if I lived in a strictly Microsoft world. I'm a multi-platform, multi-database developer, so it's easier to find a good laptop that...

There's a local startup company that may have the answer to distributed SQL: http://hugedata.com/

They have given some presentations in the DFW area that looked very interesting.

Just to add some motivational fuel:

If RedGate can't use, admin and monitor Azure, what chance do us mere mortals have?

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DO IT!

You have been jabbering about "Cloud This" and "Cloud That" for years. Since you really don't have any medical, financial or legally sensitive information and SSC is a web...

Poor management.

Take the case of Target. Were IT professionals and responsible aware people in charge of securing their network??. Maybe at some level, but not where the buck stopped...

Given these parts there's a quite few projects I could build: remote weather station, quiz show type game with wireless remotes, various robots, reverse GPS cache, network indicator, simple to...

It's not that you have to, but you have a choice and SQL Server is as valid as any other choice. It isn't about picking one OSS component and then...

Question: If I'm going to use cheap open hardware like the Raspberry Pi, Arduino and OSS to capture data, why would I use StreamInsight and SQL Server to store it...