I think I've been lucky in being a developer before choosing the DBA route.  The debate about whether something belonged in the DB or app never occurred because I was...

Preaching to the choir!

I think a substantial part of the problem is the lack of leadership, mentoring and guidance.  The biggest accelerators for my career have been a...

Hi Solomon, I've no idea where the commas came from so it's a typo.  
When you get a Virtual Box image it puts the template for the image in your...

Many years ago my wife and I discovered our youngest son's love of "The Italian Job" DVD may not have been appropriate when he told his Grandpa that he "was...

That's great.  I'll have a look to see if I can get DbFit working with Vertica

I'd be starting at the absolute beginning as I haven't touched Azure.  I don't think I've touched Microsoft tech at work for over 3 years

I can understand why developers like JSON.  For passing simple payloads between services it is fine, if a little bulky.

As a recipient of JSON for uploading into a...

Well done Microsoft.

Under GDPR with limited exceptions I own the data about me.  Companies have to ask my permission to use my data for purposes other than those...

Although you have to look at costs you also have to consider what you could do that you can't do now.  Particularly if that something is delivering something revenue generating.

GDPR says that all reasonable precautions must be taken to protect personal data taking into account state-of-the-art and cost. A 17 year old DB platform is not state of the...

I'm not worried about being held hostage by big cloud vendors such as AWS, Microsoft et al.  I think it much more likely that vendor lock in the on-premise world...

I've spent 3 years dealing with AWS so I would be asking whether the tasks that go away due to the move to a cloud provider allow you to pursue...