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...

I went on a course recently and discovered that

• The skills I learned 15 years ago in a company specialising in accessible websites using content management systems are still ahead...

We're still using an app written in MS-Access in 2002 as our main database. 100k lines of code, and its only now that we've started hitting the wall of...

Librarianship and information mapping are two disciplines that are massively underrated.  Without them you are left trying to sort the wheat from the chaff.  That can be difficult whether you...

I have been putting together a list of things my department has achieved in 2019.  It has cheered me up no end.  I've asked my colleagues to review the list...

To anyone who says "Why write tests?" I'd say the tests should capture desired system behaviour and those desired behaviours are a technical expression the business requirements of what was...

Hi David - you say:

'As an Aspie I communicate more fluently in writing than I would ever manage do face to face. '

Had to look that up, so that...

The best PM I ever worked with used to nudge meetings along, then thanked people for agreeing to own specific actions. If they challenged he'd replay the conversations in the...

I think this is a very important point and very easy to overlook.

If...

A lot of the stuff we take for granted these days just didn't exist or was in a fledgling state.

I wish I'd known about "clean code".  To be fair,...