Whether you are a Brent or a Jeff there are some pitfalls to watch out for to avoid burning yourself out.

Do others see you as a leg up or a...

Never assign to malice that which can be assigned to incompetence.  But in the case of the Post Office it is hard to brush it off as mere incompetence.

HMRC (tax office) has the guilty until proven innocent perversion too.  I didn't know a similar law was used for the Post Office.

Everything about this story stinks.  People were prosecuted...

Go for it, the only way is up!

If you research your subject, capture your method and your results then you have something that future you will thank you for, whether...

With very few exceptions I've stayed with my employers for at least 5 years.

• Merlin Gerin (electrical switchgear manufacturer)
• NEBS Business Stationery (business printing company)
• McCann-Erickson (advertising)
• Kudos-IDD (technical documentation...

Where a standard emerges it should represent that which the most people find readable.  Yes, something else may be better for you personally, but you are going for what is...

The linked article is long but well worth reading.  A lot of it dovetails with my experiences.

It's one thing to hire a great DBA, data engineer but you really need...

From what I have seen the people I would regard as being at the top of their profession have certain traits.

• Competence with confidence
• Natural teachers.  If feels like you...

Adventureworks is a publicly available DB designed to show off SQL Server.  As such it has sensible naming standards and PK/FKs.

Is there a capability that would work against DBs that...

Kris Kovacs has kept his original NOSQL comparison article up-to-date.  I refer back to it at intervals.

All DBs represent a compromise to achieve a set of functionality. ...

I was fortunate in that my company put all of us through Helen Tupper's "Squiggly Careers" programme.  I can recommend both of her books.  https://www.amazingif.com/books/.  I've bought Squiggly Careers for...

SQL Server still has sp_procoption so having a proc whose duty is to pre-warm the buffer cache is possible.  What would be useful to preload into the buffer cache...

In my experience people solve the wrong problem or follow a path that would mirrors the line "Something must be done!  This is something, therefore it must be done"!

The cloud...

Rod, I've found that solutions to human behaviour, such as finding reasons to want to bypass a CI/CD pipeline, are not permanent.

The danger with any process is that it is...

I was shocked to find a DB deployment pipeline that was written using the Talend ETL tool.  The tool attempted to be a SQL parser dictating what SQL could and...