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That left me with wondering, is IaaS the preferred approach by people adopting a cloud presence, whether that's fully cloud based or mixed? And if IaaS is the...

Because T-SQL is a declarative and domain specific language (SQL Server), it leads to code that's easy to hold in one's head. However, one area where it has a disadvantage...

It's kind of awkward when the interviewer knows the candidate is faking it. The sooner you confess to not knowing something, then the sooner you can move on to the...

I havn't been a  candidate for several years, but one thing I do during a technical interview is ask for an example of what challenges the team encountered on a...

Automation scripts are also good for documentation and certification. For example, if you can codify your month end process into a single script using a high level language like PowerShell,...

When I've done interviews in the past for an intermediate or above level position, I've asked mostly 'why', 'how', 'give an example of', and 'tell me about' type questions.

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A lot of the rioters appeared to have smart phones - which they were using to video record their escapade. The FBI could subpoena location data from Google, Apple, and...

Madame Pelosi's laptop was stolen. Are PCs or devices used by members of Congress have some form of (FTE) full disk encryption enabled? For government issued devices, someone in the...

My understanding of the SolarWinds hack is that the password to the FTP site used for software releases (SolarWinds123) was inadvertently leaked on the web, because they re-used the same...

Continuing down the PII = Technical Debt side track, I'm thinking that in an ideal scenario, an OLTP databases, data warehouse, data lake, etc. should not contain PII - only...

Another form of technical debt is needless personal identifying information (PII) that accumulates in our databases and file systems. I've sometimes analogized it to toxic waste, because of the way...

California's CCPA laws are already in effect for "show me my data" and "delete my data" requests, but there are other US states planning to rollout in near future as...

What's essential is knowing what data access patterns are being used by each application and then partitioning, structuring, and indexing the data optimally. For ad-hoc aggregate reporting on millions or...

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Having that ADS shortcut available on the Windows Start menu will certainly lead to an increase in adoption, so maybe that's the idea of bundling it with the SSMS install....

At least in the realm of IT, if you find a task hard or tedious to do, then there is probably a better way of doing it.