The other day while browsing through the forums on JustAnswer, looking to diagnose an issue with my dish washer machine, I stumbled across a post from some guy who was...

Machines don't lie, but the data they tell us can still be inaccurate. For example: the internal clock could be slow, or some parameter miscoded (ie: a point of sale...

For good reason, I'm sure that the police officer was watching that driver-less car closely, and I can picture him following it for some time, waiting for it to make...

Fortunately, the norm is for the presentation tier to be entirely separate from the business logic and database tiers, and end users can choose what device, operating system and browser...

Here is my analogy: IoT is to the consumer appliance industry what GMO is to the farming industry. It primarily helps the producer capitalize on their product, while it offers superficial...

Internet Of Things, just like Social Media, is a powerful tool. It can be leveraged to create some really great applications, but if not used judiciously it also has some...

There is an alarming issue when using SQL Server authentication that many DBAs don't consider. Keep in mind that once an application or user logs in, there is nothing preventing...

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So as long SQL Server keeps adding features I can use, while maintaining the same historical level of reliability and affordability, then I'd say each new release is better than...

Even for core SQL Server developers, the incremental improvements to ColumnStore and In-Memory table support are reason enough to upgrade.

Well, asking for my favorite SQL Server version isn't the same as asking for my favorite Smashing Pumpkins album release. SQL Server has a history of linear improvement. I may...

With a scale-out architecture which allows for individual servers to fail over or be taken offline for maintenance, the questions becomes: At what point of degradation is the application or...

Creating a linked server connection to another domain.

It seems to me that if an organization already has a customer data-mart, then fulfilling such a request would be as simple as running a canned report. It could even...