Imagine that you're at the shopping mall, and a sales associate follows you out of the store, keeping notes about every other store you visit, and even following you home,...

I only use table variables for stored procedures that I know will query only a relatively small number of rows. For example, a procedure that gets called by a high...

We shouldn't allow criminals, terrorists, hostile nations, or political dictators to set our agenda.

So, do microservices really eliminate the need for RDMS, or could many of them simply be an abstraction for a RDMS?
It is essential that the microservice be backed...

It would be interesting to see some statistics about how many terrorist attacks or criminal operations have been discovered and/or successfully prosecuted by surveillance of internet communications. Does the net...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/agents-of-automation/568795/

What's sad is that...

It's hard to separate the sarcasm from truth in this Onion story. :unsure:
https://www.theonion.com/wells-fargo-computer-glitch-accidentally-forecloses-on-1830889330

I see the arguments for or against schema-less and transaction-less databases as similar to debates about corporate dress codes. For example, it can be true that allowing *some* employees to...

This type of data breach is common; where protected data elements are accidentally released in a dataset intended for 3rd party or public subscribers.

A few years ago, the...