If the job basically involves assisting end users with data entry and querying using the front office application GUI (not back office ETL programming or data analysis) then I'd call...

An administrative assistant who specializes in performing basic data querying tasks for an executive would probably be soon displaced by {Alexa, Cortana, Echo, Watson}. It still sounds like a job...

It's entirely possible the DBA can't help much when it comes to understanding the logical model of the database, especially if it's part of a 3rd party vendor application, because...

...Perhaps we need data scribes in more industries. Not a single employee dedicated to one person, but a specialist in the gathering and cleaning of data, preparing it in...

https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4596/copying-sql-server-backup-files-to-azure-blob-storage-with-azcopy/

First, manually copy the latest full backup for each database to Azure storage.
2nd, setup automated job to copy backups to Azure.
3rd, if you feel it's needed, research tools...

Rather than depending on proper string -> date conversion at time of query, you can create a check constraint on the table column, insuring that date strings are encoded with...

Hi Gary, CosmosDB (specifically the DocumentDB) is something I've started to work with this past year. Change Feed seems geared toward replicating from CosmosDB to either another CosmosDB database or...

I think we could use more folks with an IT background in the political legislature to balance and counterpoint the usual career politicians, activists, and businessmen. Those of us in...

Isolation level determines how much time your query will spend waiting for other processes to commit their updates. In a transaction databases (where many users are querying and updating at...

I went to PASS 2017 and didn't witness anyone there drunk, dressing provocatively, or getting rowdy; although I have seen it at high school band camp and neighborhood block parties....

..Certainly some people want the freedom to behave as they see fit, where they don't believe they are doing anything wrong. I understand that, but ultimately I also believe...

Perhaps the data science teams at companies like Twitter and FaceBook should turn their analytical skills inward and start asking questions like: "Why is employee #2922 suddenly interested in querying...