I'm glad you mentioned the culture change and emphasised the need to work on the processes. The tools and technology are there already.

When you say continuous delivery do you...

It's great that the SQLSERVER community is like this but also a bit sad that the collaboration and helpfulness is regarded as unusual.

I've been hunting for the podcast from Netflix where they stated that they learnt the hard way to trust the data. They found that many of their intuited decisions...

Anything where you are describing relationships between entities and those relationships themselves have properties have properties.

I wrote about using Neo4J to help navigate through the relationships[/url] in a SQL Server...

I strongly suspect that in the event of a DR scenario the business would find out that certain non-critical systems were actually far more important than they realised.

The question I...

If you go down the as a service route the skills balance changes to those whose speciality is software integration.

If you outsource then you will need project management and tech...

Microsoft, your product is mature, it is time to start sweating the small stuff

I used to work in an advertising agency and the received wisdom was that customers were creatures of habit. Your activities were to make sure that customers didn't lose the...

Thanks go to Solomon Rutzky for his help peer reviewing this article. The use of SqlString isn't quite right which is my fault as are any other errors you may...

Try Aquafold Data Studio. Well worth the money in my opinion.

It's a database IDE for !multiple dB platforms plus erd capabilities plus SSH shell plus snippets plus NoSQL support...

Looking at the comment that the industry isn't mature the march of technology is such that some techniques that were put forward as being best practise are not totally obsolete....

I think people have very little concept of how much 2TB is or how fast 2.4Ghz is. One fusion-io card can cope with a phenomenal amount of io.

They've bought the...

I know someone who was disappointed to get a Survey Monkey exit interview. The gist of the survey was as to whether the company was good, outstanding or exceptional...

@jeff you have triggered post traumatic stress!

I too have suffered a load process that took 10 minutes to loai 3000 records.

What hurt was that I used SSIS to...

The trick is to pick the winners. The problem is identifying them.

There are hundreds if not thousands of NOSQL solutions. What is it that allows one to succeed and...