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I've only briefly supported  a setup that used Secondary AGs for reads for reporting. I've read and heard about some of the difficulties with doing so. Have you...

I believe this new wave of vibe coding freshmen just causes employers to appreciate us old hats even more.

AOG is great, because having all read-only queries routed to one or more secondary nodes will take the load off the primary where the ETL load takes place. However, there...

Steve,

I've gone back and re-read this editorial again, and I agree with the initial point about how executive management choosing to replace employees with AI can be seen as selfish,...

There is nothing "selfish" about learning new skills to enhance your job performance and avoid a layoff, especially when employers are  actively engaged in layoffs and explicitly signaling that they...

Hi Chandan,

Whatever is going on, it's transient, meaning it works for a couple of weeks, and then starts failing until another reboot.

Explain more about "port/socket exhaustion", like what I can...

One of my past projects was creating a daily scheduled ETL job that downloads Azure billing data to a SQL Server data mart, and then someone on the DevOps team...

My understanding is that, if you sign out of the Postman desktop app, you can make requests to local web services without an internet connection, but some of the features...

One interesting option is the "Azure Spot VM" pricing model. You're basically using unallocated CPU resources from the global pool - but during periods of peak usage your VM can...

Ah, so "PR" is an acronym for Pull Request.

Most of the time when I'm doing a code review for a stored procedure, the context is that it was actually deployed...

I don't know if 12 TB is pushing the limits, but that's the largest database we currently have in an AOG.

I'm a DBA, and I actually spend about 1/2 of my time refactoring SQL, coding PowerShell, and designing Grafana dashboards.

AI plays a role, but it's hardly taking over my job...

I understand unions for factory workers, teachers, and truck drivers.

But IT covers a very broad range of job descriptions - a lot of them distinct. What a DBA or software...

I think it's important to familiarize with the current boilerplate questions that are trending on social media, not because these are actually great questions I would personally ask when interviewing...

If you're going about your daily routine at work and think to yourself: "I could automate most every task I'm doing.", then there is a strong possibility that your current...