If data belonging to the museum was hacked, then that's obviously an issue.

However, regarding the Nefertiti sculpture, I'm not fully understanding the outrage over the reproduction. Is a 3D...

In addition to Crouching Cursors and Hidden Triggers, some other pitfalls that can lead to the demise of a DBA are stored procedures compiled with non-default SET-ings, remote joins, and...

Ask your DBA if she can create a special database for which you are the owner, so you can use it to create your tables and stage data for reporting...

Aggregate downtime per year is a common baseline measurement, but it may not be the right question. In many cases it's really a matter of how much contiguous downtime can...

Thomas Hütter (4/15/2016)

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Well, concerning downtimes of Azure, here's some recent experience of mine:

I attended 2 SQL events so far this year, at both there were speakers breaking their demos because...

In many organizations, the physical model of the database is entirely determined by the default behaviour of whatever data modeling or ORM tool was used by the developer. It's not...

Interative development with a series of deliverable milestones. I've found that stakeholders and users are more willing to accept long (and even expensive) project lifecycles, if they can get their...

Documentation of the database architecture and processes is especially critical when the disaster your organization is attempting to recover from is the sudden death of the DBA.

A Proof Of Concept doesn't have to be a mockup of the entire solution. For example, if I want to prove the concept that loading data into a staging table...

robert.sterbal 56890 (4/12/2016)

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Eric M Russell (4/12/2016)

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I like SQLBits talks, because they are more conversational and don't use live demos. That works well for me, because I rip a lot of...

Gary Varga (4/13/2016)

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This....

below86 (4/13/2016)

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I've got a question on how I should handle a situation. I've been looking at local companies and I've found one that has an opening I think I...

below86 (4/12/2016)

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I...

While job searching last year, the biggest obstacle I had to overcome was IT recruiters. My advise is: Don't rely (or even waste your time) on 3rd party recruiters, always...

below86 (4/11/2016)

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Eric M Russell (4/6/2016)

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We have open positions for SQL Server DBAs and Database Developers (v2008 - v2016), if anyone is interested in the North Atlanta area, specially Kennesaw/Marietta. Good...