Expertise has an expiration date.

I used to know transactional replication like the back of my hand. I'm rustier than a very rusty thing now.

...I think most...

I've learned so much about security over the past year and I've come out of it frightened.

Users, Groups, Roles and LDAP integration is the warm up before the 1st cup...

When the app dictates the database structure and the app is the only thing using the database structure then you are in a happy place. Every decision you make...

kerry_hood (6/10/2016)

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the negative side was that 12 people in Hull lost their jobs due to it. But without it, the whole company would probably have gone down and all...

My best stories mostly involve other people.

Years ago there used to be a CMS call Obtree. Three of us built a mechanism to allow content to be exported to...

Yes I understand that, and that having a link between...

Web analytics does generate a large volume of data relative to the OTLP activity that the web site produces. Products such as Speedtrap shred out the data including any...

The data growth isn't coming from OLTP.

I've been watching and participating in the Big Data world for a while and I see non-IT people bragging about their Big Data usage...

hakim.ali (6/7/2016)

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This. Over and over.

I think it's about loss of control. It's okay to do it (from a developer's perspective) because they are the ones choosing the exact details of...

Eric M Russell (6/6/2016)

I hate meetings where the important architectural decisions have already been made behind closed doors and all the only reason they put the development or DBA team...

One of my managers always volunteered to keep the minutes, that way his points were always recorded and inevitably signed off.

There's clearly an art to running a meeting and there's...

@steve-2, I'm pretty sure that you started using the pubs database much earlier than SQL2014. I suspect that you used it pre-SQL Server 6.x.

I liked the way that Adventureworks...

Many a true word said in jest, Jeff. I should change the picture.

It's my mid-life crisis purchase as I couldn't afford a meno-porsche. I wrote it off and...

There's a presentation that demonstrates that you may as well not bother with an IT degree because the pace of change is so fast that by year 4 what you...