I had a driving day for my fortieth.  The Ferrari felt like a knackered Fiat until it hit 90mph when, all of a sudden, it came alive and I thought...

The more you dig into data generation the more complicated it gets.  Even if you have a good data generator configuring it to generate data that looks like your production...

I've had a few of these.  The worse one was a deployment pipeline that rewrote the SQL scripts that it executed while attempting to police what it would and wouldn't...

I've had two jobs as a direct result of writing for SQLServerCentral and a number of opportunities.

One of our directors gave me an hour of her time to give me...

Whatever your patching strategy I would hope people are moving to

• Scripted deployments for server installs, service packs and patches
• A large battery of mechanical tests to verify both their...

The reality is that IT workers are paid well above the average wage.  The cost of an annual subscription to one of the MOOCs is not high when expressed in...

Article "Oiling the gears for the data dictionary (Part 2) " on the way.  Have a great New Year Steve

SAS makes much of its ability to push models down to Teradata.  From what I have seen of SAS you are best off doing as much as possible in the...

I find that a lot of specialisms get taken for granted.  It's really easy to set something up and get it running.  The true test is when something breaks or...

Fast forward to 2020 and SQL Server is a transactional DB, an Analytical DB (column store & SSAS), a GraphDB and you could argue that the JSON and XML facilities...

I think you have to make the distinction between decisions and outcomes.

A decision that was correct at the time it was made may have a disastrous outcome and the decision...

Worth reading about Netflix and the Chaos Monkey approach

If you get into some of the functionality, you'll find out things like it has a "PIVOT" bit of functionality that makes SQL Server's Pivot functionality look more like...

While it is still possible to have a career that stays within the Microsoft technology stack not even Microsoft are 100% Microsoft anymore.

To my mind vendor certification makes sense when...

I am finding that using containers is a definite benefit.

With regard to K8s if at all possible I would suggest that companies operating in the cloud choose a managed service...