licensing is extra confusing in the cloud. Sometimes licensing is included in an Azure SQL, sometimes not. You could easily be double licensed as not licensed at...

This is probably not an availability issue, since cloud providers replicate images and data across regional data centers by default. But I'm thinking that unanticipated spikes in temperature could present...

Azure SQL...

I have a few ideas about how to mitigate the cloud compute shortage.

For example, when a customer provisions an IaaS VM, the option 'Azure Spot instance' offers a much discounted...

Regarding the input parameters @BookID and @StudentID, instead of supplying IDs in the form of a delimited string, consider using table-valued parameters instead. This would make referencing the parameters much...

I think the ubiquitous advice of rebooting is has mostly to do with the economics of customer support. Attempting to provide a remote customer with step by step instructions on...

As engineers, we shouldn't view the world in the context of good and evil. Everything (and everyone) is a collection of attributes, each of which are good or bad for...

I'm not an advocate of cryptocurrency or smart contract applications - but the underlying technology of publicly distributed ledgers and blockchains can be leveraged to protect digital records from disaster,...

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There may be more PC components, suppliers, and configuration choices today, so the decision tree for building a PC is much more complicated. But then again back in the early...

I encourage everyone to create a free Snowflake trial account. It includes a shared copy of the TPC-DS sample database that is 100 TB in size with 100 million records...

It depends. Some users browse the cube directly as a decision support tool, so they can quickly slice and dice measurements across dimensions, so the cube itself is the product....

"With the focus on privacy in the media, and the mishandling of data regularly by companies, I wouldn't be surprised if there are going to be large numbers of requests...

Rubrik, the backup solution we use, allows us to live mount a SQL Server database from backup, which is great for QA testing. Redgate has something similar.

But the good thing...

Heh... ok... here's another thought.  If you don't think you own the data (not like the guy in the story Steve related), let something happen to it and find...

There are NoSQL databases out there that specialize in doing stuff like: serving high volume JSON document reads (CosmosDB / MongoDB), data warehousing (Snowflake, Azure Synapse), graph querying, website caching...