In the past, I maintained a database containing TB sized tables and billions of rows where occasionally once every one or two weeks) the data analysts needed to perform mass...

In a world with 7 billion people, most of whom have (or soon will have) digitized records, we need some type of unique universal identifier, like a SSN. My only...

I've wondered for a long time why issues like like digital privacy and identity theft don't get talked about more often by politicians. It's something that 99% of the public...

... For me, I started with BASIC, and a little assembler with early systems. I moved to Pascal in high school, trying to develop fun games and computer assisted...

DBCC CHECKIDENT events should show up in the default trace.

SELECT TOP 100
    gt.[ServerName]
    ,gt.[DatabaseName]
    ,gt.[SPID]
    ,gt.[StartTime]

Has anyone else here read the tell-all book "Disrupted: My Misadventure In The Start-Up Bubble"?
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/05/473097951/laid-off-tech-journalist-joins-a-start-up-finds-its-part-frat-part-cult

It's bizarre and LOL funny. At one point it involves a...

What's annoying are fire-and-forget monster queries, where the user disconnects their laptop and goes home for the day, leaving the orphan process running overnight with no one on the other...

The cloud is just somebody else's data center. The tools are essentially the same as what you've always been using on-premises.