More than a decade ago, I worked almost exclusively from home for a handful of years and would not consider it time well spent career wise. In organizations where most...

Regardless of what data warehousing tools you choose (if any); the majority of your human resource time will be spent gathering requirements, documenting requirements, team status meetings, troubleshooting source data...

...I hope that our managers start to think that when our systems run slower that we're dealing with big data, and we need more resources. The whole big data...

Depending on the complexity of the database, like if you're dealing with 100+ tables, then even a good auto-generated document isn't always meaningful. It's the type of thing that management...

It's obvious that IT took...

The developer (typically an app developer but sometimes a DBA if it's something like a stored procedure or SSIS package) will create a Change Order with script(s) attached and a...

The evolution of a society to an information based economy is similar to that of the industrial revolution. Early in the process (we're maybe at the mid-point now) we produced...

I think we've all been on edge for the past year. I'm looking forward to the weekend.

Welsh Corgi
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Sorry, but what you just said doesn't compile. If that's the best sales pitch you can come up with, then you should consider becoming a street beggar.

For me, it's mostly T-SQL via SSMS. Often times I use the GUI to create the initial version of the script. I don't see the point in using SQLCMD or...