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...

What makes it a very hot table is when a user enters editing, the code inserts into this table a clone of the rows to fall back to if the...

Have you examined the execution plan(s) used by this stored procedure?
You mentioned that the table is "hot", which I assume you mean it's getting a large volume of...

If your goal is certification, then use the Microsoft test prep kit book, because you can be an expert at many aspects of SQL Server (ie: internals or administration) and...

By default, I add an identity column to a table and then a clustered index on top of that. I don't recall ever choosing to model a heap table. Having...

Depending on the data access pattern, other database platforms like Azure Document DB, Azure Table storage, or Azure Key Vault are better optimized for entity-attribute-value or JSON/XML document implementations. When...

While on the topic of ISV databases with incomprehensible data models, PeopleSoft comes to mind.

We can also question whether schema-less XML and JSON documents (or BLOBs, or images, or free text) belong in SQL Server in the first place. The user community has already...

Well, it's stupid to publish a dataset without knowing the meaning of what all columns or attributes are included. I'd expect better forethought from a healthcare organization knowing that the...