I've been looking at a product called "Docker" which allows you to spin up a pre-configured machine. One of the guys in the DevOps team used it to demonstrate...

If 9 manager hold a meeting then that is 10 hours productivity gained because they are not distracting other people.

Writing status reports is an utter pain but sometimes necessary. ...

Oooo the illusions of power! As a manager who used to be a DBA I can tell you that life is not any greener on the other side.

Our business...

Nice to see you writing Val. Shame the rest of the guys at Moneysupermarket haven't lost their writing cherry. You all have a huge amount of knowledge to...

You should see the SQL Extensions in AsterData. It would be great to see a few of them in T-SQL for the polybase stuff.

I used to track my car's fuel consumption until I got a car that did that for me. I used to use the figures to keep an eye on...

I think we all recognise the need for good security practises.

I'd like to see some thought given to the policies and procedures that are inflicted rather than enforced.

A 273 page...

I've just finished reading Patrick Lencioni's "3 signs of a miserable job". He says that the 3 characteristics of a job that are likely to make for a happy...

So much to say its hard to know where to begin.

Bad management and poor leadership begets bad management and poor leadership. Without deliberate efforts to stop it the Peter...

I am more worried about functions that return an INT rather than a BIGINT.

Calculations on larger datasets can easily involve values that throw overflow exceptions.

If there is a uniqueidentier datatype...

Read Daniel Kahneman's book on cognitive bias.

In theory we have the golden goose. In practise the powers that be begrudge the cost of the hen house and are...

I'm trying to think of the features that weren't in SQL2000 that I actually used in the later versions.

1. Partitioning

2. Mirroring

3. SQLCLR (very limited)

4. Some language...

Microsoft DocumentDB looks interesting but is only available in Azure. I'd love to know where the graph database outlined in the Trinity white paper is going to go.

I have...