"..This was my biggest year, where I flew over 140,000 miles and spent nearly 90 nights away from home.."

That sounds like an opportunity to read more than handful of books.

Hey,

Reading this made me look back towards my year as well. I recently graduate with my CS degree but got a job in networking at a telecom company. How...

"..dual core 2.8Ghz CPU with 500GB of storage.."

Maybe it was all a misunderstanding; I'm pretty sure the above specifications were just a request for upgrading the DBA's laptop.

I understand why data analysts and power users would prefer ADS. However, I still prefer SSMS, because my database development work involves more than just SQL query writing. I'm typically...

I don't think there are fewer (nor are there more) journalists today than there were 20 years ago. Bloggers are not real journalists, but they do make their living by...

Online trading didn't kill financial advisers, prefab construction didn't kill architects, TV dinners didn't kill professional chefs, blogging didn't kill journalism, NoSQL didn't kill SQL, and DaaS won't kill DBAs.

In addition our database backups, the infrastructure team has setup a process to copy VM host image backups to Azure for both database and application servers. It's not useful for...

If I'm not putting out a fire, responding to a request, or working on a deliverable, then I'm learning something. I believe that most of us have more opportunity and...

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I believe that many organizations would gladly pay a moderate fee to have their files decrypted, especially if the trusted the guy on the other side.

From what I recall, there are two ways to query SQL Server from MS Access. One method is to create linked tables, where you pulls rows across the wire and...

I'd put MS Access in the same general database classification as Excel, FileMaker, FoxPro, or even SQLite. It does "just work" - but only within a narrow scope of use...

I feel like job/candidate searching is a lot like dating - there is a good deal of marketing and self delusion in both the resumes and job descriptions.

an ex  colleague of mine used to turn up in knee length shorts, Hawaiian shirt, flip flops and a lot of "bling" -

the directors put out an email about...

If I were going to dress up for Halloween, I'd wear a black hoodie with one of those white "Guy Fawkes" style hacker masks. As a prop, I'd carry around...

For my personal email, I rely solely on MS Outlook app on my iPhone. I like the new feature where it consolidates all email accounts into a single view with...