I can remember a good friend being told "with our solution you can scale out as much as you want" and his response being "why the hell would I need...

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned tagging for cost tracking.

Cost tracking and reporting in the cloud is important if you want to identify where the unexpected bills are coming from.

Creating a...

I worked for my previous employer for a total of 13 years.  A block of 8, working elsewhere for 2 years then back for another 5 years.

I got made redundant...

Yes it was me and I still feel that it is part of being an exceptional DBA. 

Aarron's and Jeff's advice is pretty sound.

As a senior, a sharing mentality and the nurturing of your teaching skills will be valued by those over whom you are senior.

One thing...

When cubes came out column store technology was no where near where it is now and wasn't available in SQL Server.

Dimensional modelling and Data Vault 2.0 modelling remain relevant and...

That's evil Jeff.....but very true.

In my experience there is using PaaS and there's using PaaS cost effectively.

I think a lot of companies have got a nasty shock when the 1st cloud bills came rolling...

For implementation and consultancy partners there can be certification requirements. For example the different tiers of AWS partnership requires a certain percentage of your staff hold

• A general certification
• A...

Just reread this article. I'd advise people to watch out for "boil the frog" behaviour.

Senior people come and senior people go and with them the culture of an organisation shifts....

If I have one regret in my career it is in not taking enough risks. While I have seen a few highly talented people soar in their careers. I have...

We use Docker containers heavily and scan them using Dockle and Trivy as part of our CI/CD pipeline.

It came as a shock to find many marketplace Docker images riddled with...

The pre-commit hooks can be any language. Quite a few of them can be just YAML in the . pre-commit-config.yaml file.

https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks.

In the 1st example shown in the link above you...

I've found HR policies cause problems that people work around and in doing so get the organisational equivalent of tech debt.

The bureaucracy involved in promoting a junior to senior is...

Rod, take a look at a package called pre-commit. The idea is that when you attempt to commit code to git it will run a whole bunch of checks.

Each type...