Our DBA team has an ASP.NET application called DBADashboard where we consolidate various operational reports for our own consumption and other reports that provide visibility to other IT teams. It's...

You also have to take into consideration the amount of wasted time that would result if the automated schedule was calculated incorrectly resulting in duplicated effort - or even worse,...

That could be, but when management dictates to developers how to code a for() loop, then it's time to polish up the resume and move on.

I don't know what logic was executed inside the loop. If it was querying the database for each iteration (bad design pattern to start with), then I can somewhat understand...

SQL Server has been very very good to me.

".. I wonder how many businesses have started to see new trends and needed to abandon some amount of historical data from their charts and graphs. If that's the case,...

The other day, I loaded up Leisure Suit Larry from a 3.5" floppy I purchased in 1990. Still good.

Where I work, we have a polling process that runs daily and sends email notifications about databases that havn't been used for X days. The same goes for SQL and...

2021 was the year I was tired all the time - perhaps it was recovery from 2020.

In regards to SQL Server, auditing and compliance was front and center. I developed...

Does anyone here remember FoxPro for DOS and Clipper?

Old timers in the IT outback will occasionally see these things still living in the wild.

So, apparently smart contacts are not immutable after all - or at least the programming that implements them is mutable. But this guy brings up the point that programmers are...

Thanks for taking the time to write this article, Kathi.

What's even worse than what you mention is that the quality of the "official" documentation has totally tanked as is...

Two people authenticate a process. For example, I want to turn auditing off, but I can't do it alone. I ALTER AUDIT SET OFF, but until another admin does...

Steve,

When you mentioned "perhaps even two-person authentication" in your editorial, what were you thinking about?

On out production servers, we do have login auditing enabled, and a daily email report of...

"Recently I saw someone suggest MFA for SQL Server. I would hope that we would get not only more complex authentication for the platform, perhaps even two-person authentication. but I'm...