Indie yes. Stock, Aitkin and Waterman not so much.

This topics emphasizes that if long term retrieval is a required then this has to be designed in from day one.

I have worked on a project to retrieve data...

All technologies were immature once.

If your data looks like a document then use a document store. When it looks like a relational dataset use a relational store.

You can get...

I became a DBA because I needed those skills to do what I wanted to do with data.

I enjoy all aspects of database development and in particular get a buzz...

Jeff Moden (11/26/2013)

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Gosh. I believe this is real simple.

The signs should say that you'll be towed after 2 hours UNLESS you register your vehicle with the folks inside. ...

Depends what you regard as SQL Server.

1. The relational engine

2. The column store engine

3. SS IS/AS/RS

4. Full-text search

For me full-text search is disappointing. That is...

I had a lot of fun building software to auto-generate CRUD stored procedures for reference data. It takes a surprising amount of code to generate relatively simple code.

The problem...

NSR = None Stated...

There is a very definite skill in writing a suite of useful tests. You can't approach it as a "check the box" exercise.

Automated testing allows a huge range of...

Which features through the generations of Microsoft Office were regarded as a little clunky?

Early generations of SQLPrompt and SQLRefactor were clunky.

DBCC was a little clunky.

Profiler was a little...

Coming back to this after 4 years the observations I would make is that the world has taken a different path.

People needed a low cost alternative to Oracle, SQL Server,...

There is a large secretive enterprise ETL company whose product is quite possibly the most powerful and easy to use tool on the planet.

I find with SSIS that when I...

Lets suppose you are launching a new line of business. It's a bit of a punt. You hope it will be wildly successful but equally it might not.

Do...

Eric M Russell (10/15/2013)

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Today, in the fall of 2013, how may of us are using SQL Server Azure or EC2 in a production environment?

I don't mean a database feeding your...

If I resigned and the split was amicable I'd be expected to work my notice.

If I resigned and the split was acrimonious I'd want early release from my contract. ...