Eric, although there is always tme to squeeze something in and learn I think a more formal recognition of the need for experimentation time is needed.

There has to be...

I know of a company that has a SQL2000 instance still running in SQL7 compatibility mode.

The drive to upgrade comes when it is a physical machine with a spiralling maintenance...

I wrote an Big Data article [/url]for simple-talk in a similar vein.

Basically, what are the business requirements and how's it going to make money.

Two of the traditional 3Vs of Big...

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I would have loved to call one of these ladies at 2:00 AM and have her go into the data center to handle problems, but that wouldn't have been...

Carla Wilson-484785 (4/3/2014)

I...

I started a career in IT when being a bit odd was kind of expected. It wasn't a case of minority-x in technology it was a case of minority-x...

Normal coding practises ensure any excess performance is bled off:rolleyes:

We've just renamed all our alleged coffee/tea/hot chocolate to "brown", as in "I'll have a cup of brown".

YES. Our chief exec stood up before the entire company and said that a web site...

I understand the pragmatic need to get stuff done.

One thing I have learnt about compromised solutions is that the time saved by short-cuts increments in a linear fashion (up to...

A rollback in a non-production environment should be celebrated as preventing a rollback scenario in the production environment. It means that your pre-production environments have justified their existence!

Both deployments...

I picked up a few Dean Crawford books on a 2nd hand stall. Enjoyable escapism, sort of x-files meets Clive Cussler.

Hollywood seems to be doing more reboots than I...

In theory in the UK the data protection registra can send the CEO of a company in breach of legislation to prison.

Having data without security is like driving without insurance.

You...

SQL# contains just about everything I'd want to do that isn't already in T-SQL.

It think SQLCLR has yet to have its day. I firmly believe that it has potential...

I really must replace my 8 year old PC running XP. It's good enough for web browsing, running MS Word, tinkering with SQL 2008R2 and a few others. ...