I think that when people see SQL Server they see a very visible and huge cost.  I'm finding that even those who you have to squint a bit when they...

She sounds the ideal person to work in an agile team.  It sounds like the manager in this story is the one who needs to raise their game.  What I...

I think people lose sight of the fact that AI/ML are just a form of power tool. You wouldn't damn an electric drill for drilling through a pipe.
One evening...

I worked on a personalisation system that affected the sort order of products returned from a search so as to place the products in order of the customer's propensity to...

I haven't used SQL Server in a professional context for 5 years but I have used what I have learned from my past life as a SQL Server DBA and...

Back in my direct mail days it was standard practise to put seed names and addresses into customer lists so that we could tell if our list was being used...

So much of the internet depends on OpenSSL as we found with the Heart Bleed vulnerability. I don't think that OSS is any less or more secure. I've certainly seen...

SQL Slammer hit a lot of stuff behind the firewall.  All it took was one exposed MSDE machine inside the network and it sprawled across the SQL Servers within the...

When building a Hadoop stack we ran into a lot of problems with different versions of the components not talking to each other.  That is why Hortonworks, Cloudera and MapR...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairway/105855/ dispels...

The examples are on a clustered index.  Try it on a non-clustered index and also on an unindexed column.

When transitioning to a code review regime it is important to look at what works and what doesn't. The code review is to improve code but you also have to...