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A colleague was asked to write a query to retrieve information from a MongoDB database.  Fair enough, but when he came to do so he...

Singular is less typing.  Clarity of intent trumps all.

When working with Python we use Flake8 as a style cop.  The beauty of using a mechanical style cop is...

Point in time restores and even diff backups.  These should not be cause for nostalgia

Point 5 will be addressed by evolution of the new graph capabilities of SQL Server.  It's made a good start but NEO4J is quite a long way ahead

You know how newbies are convinced that DRI can be handled by the app?  They are ALWAYS proved to be wrong.  Every single time.
Its hard enough getting Data Quality...

I think data people get blindsided by cognitive bias and sometimes the cynicism that comes with age helps to predict how people will react to a result from data.
If...

When people choose experience over data is it possible that their experience is telling them that there are gaps in the data; their is not enough data?
Is there some...

If we are trying to detect activity in a "unused" DB then the overhead of a trace or extended event should not be of concern.
I'd be more worried about...

Take a look at http://www.aquafold.com/aquadatastudio.  It makes a decent fist of being a DB IDE for multiple DB platforms.  I think SSMS needs to give a nod to other platforms...

Nice article.  We used traces on DBs we believed to be inactive.  We worried about mystery monthly processes so needed a long running trace to be certain we identified this.

Where there is a dev box of course they do but without a means to simulate full production loads it's extremely difficult to gain full measure of the production issues. ...