GWAk,

One can give without going to a church or belonging to a religion. Community is a principle that works with all humans, no high beings are necessary unless they also...

There has been a large decline in ethical leadership worldwide and a growing lack of loyalty towards employees and citizens. Considering this environment, it's pretty much a given that theft...

Rumor is that SQL Server 2016R3...

Confidential info is my day job. No cloud there!

But I crunch data on the side for a some non profits...

Really? Depending on the server it takes us days, at most, once approved.

Our clients are more concerned about data security. All the recent revelations about the NSA, PRISM and corporations involved have set back any external cloud hosting system plans by...

That's about what...

It's funny that WinForms is still a...

Hybrid approach has its pitfalls, and the first of those is price. Per-kb cost of transferring data from Azure to your local cloud or server is atrocious. MSFT apparently wants...

What do you think is going to happen to businesses that feel they can't commit to the cloud for privacy reasons? Is there a data model for them at Microsoft,...

“there is no such thing as a SQL Server team anymore. There is, in fact, no code base called SQL Server. There’s only one code base, which is the Azure...

I noticed they left out Windows 8 on the list of products that you can submit feedback on...

SQL Server is a great product, but current licensing costs have pushed it into the high-end price bracket, opening up the same sort of price/feature hole in SQL Server that...

I use better version control (Git & Mercurial) for my open source projects than I do for my work related ones. Tis a sad thought...

As much as I like SQL Server and the folks that support it, I have some qualms about vendor lock in and Microsoft as a whole. With the slap in...