My prediction is that for the first five years or so, the software driving driver-less cars will play it safe and come to a complete stop when confronted with a...

An individual with no institutional influence can still influence the institution by proxy. Identify closest person to you who does have influence and invite them for lunch. Explain to them...

Hopefully the same executives and software engineers responsible for hacking emissions tests won't be relied upon to program ethics for self driving cars.

When traveling by plane or driving through a border crossing, I'm thinking it may be a good idea to perform a factory data reset on your phone, and then setup...

As for those IT organizations who think that insurance is a substitute for full compliance - that's about as stupid as thinking auto insurance can compensate for drunk driving. The...

I implemented our organization's process for executing CCPA updates across 100+ production databases. It's meta-data driven - there is a table containing one record for each server/database/schema/table/column that needs to...

To truly fix SSISDB, Microsoft would need to remove the dependencies on .NET assemblies.

Of course, now that you're got this code working perfectly, someone's going to ask that you refactor it to support same sex pairings as well.

Based on the title, I thought this was going to be an article about how to balance SQL Server with spending more quality time with our spouse.

Sharing what we think we know with others (external validation) is a good way to learn what we didn't know before. Even the "resident SQL Server expert" in an IT...

It can be dangerous for developers to download random tools from internet, especially tools that connect to the database. It needs to be from a trusted source like Microsoft or...

I don't necessarily consider myself a complete [expert] in SQL Server, but that feeling isn't based on any inferiority complex, because I actually don't believe most self professed...

I don't necessarily consider myself a complete [expert] in SQL Server, but that feeling isn't based on any inferiority complex, because I actually don't believe most self professed experts to...

Regarding MFA, this makes your account an order of magnitude more secure, but be vigilant that someone doesn't use social engineering to do a man-in-the-middle attack.

For example, last year I...

When I'm in my car, I'm not thinking about the car or how it drives. I do like my 2007 Toyota Camry, because: it's very reliable, requires minimal maintenance, still...