I saw that error the other day. The messages started appearing in the sql server log across all servers. It resulted from a misconfiguration in the server side component of...

There is a lot of snake oil when it comes to the promotion of IoT, Big Data, and social media. It's the applications and the people behind them that have...

Unlike Google, FaceBook and Cambridge Analytica; most organizations are not in the business of stockpiling data. A restraunt chain or furniture manufactorer is not in the data business any more...

PRINT @@SERVERNAME to confirm you're connected to the correct server.

I believe that Big Data is to a large extent over-hyped. Storage and analytics software providers are kind of like the guys who were selling shovels during the California gold...

It would be helpful if the concept of assertions were introduced formally into the T-SQL programming language, not just for development purposes but also as a sanity check in production....