We have a hybrid on-prem / Azure environment. We've ported some servers to Azure and never looked back. These are line of business OLTP servers. We've also ported some servers...

I believe there are a lot of similarities between working in IT and working in the restaurant industry. When doing a google search on "what do you learn in culinary...

Subject like: applied mathematics, systems analysis, computing fundamentals taught using a core programming languages like C++ and SQL, database design and normalization, software development methodologies, management of information systems; these...

You can't index the expression used in this example, because it's not deterministic (includes GETDATE function). However, if...

Social Security is primarily a jobs program for federal employees and a big pool of money from which Congress can borrow to fund other programs. It's only secondly a retirement...

Whenever our DBA team piles into a car for our lunch outing, we (usually) leave behind one or two designated survivors.

The basics for a DBA are: disaster recovery, security, and connectivity. 

The first thing I would do is confirm that backups are scheduled. You want to at least have...

Talk about micromanagement ...
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Once upon a time, corporations thought they had a right to dump their waste in the river, conceal the ingredients they put in their products, and incredibly even buy and...

OK, companies like Google would argue that every internet company collects and archives data from users of their apps. It's not just their business model, it's the business model of...