Nothing offers insight into the true culture of an organization like their recruitment process. If the interviews are informal and friendly,  and the questions are relevant and thought provoking, then...

I think the journey of studying for a certification is more valuable than the final destination itself.

There is a huge knowledge related to Azure,  and it's constantly expanding or changing....

We have a weekly on-call rotation between our team of six DBAs. There are scheduled jobs that proactively monitor things like disk space and replication errors, which send alerts via...

So, on a submarine, you can't design the toilets to flush into the ballast tanks or maybe a designated septic tank that periodically gets evacuated?

Seagulls have short attention spans, so if you ignore them, they will eventually fly off and bother someone else.

- Grumpy Cat

I will occasionally listen to background music, whenever I happen to be working on some repetitive task. However, when troubleshooting a production issue or trying to concentrate on a complex...

Regardless of how employees feel about working at an office versus from home, the reality is that many companies sold off their non-C level realestate or terminated their office space...

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After examining SQL Server error log, I saw the following message:

A user request from the session with SPID 180 generated a fatal exception. SQL Server is terminating this...

Yeah, but depending on how we choose to interpret it, you basically described Polybase.

".. That work is being added to SQL Server 2024, so that you'll be able to add...

The terms "off hours" or "after hours" is subjective, and it depends on your job description. If you are a DBA or network administrator and the system crashes at 11pm,...

I too had never heard of exercism.org before. They have a lot of languages there, even something called "D", which is apparently an evolved offshoot of C. They...

I too had never heard of exercism.org before. They have a lot of languages there, even something called "D", which is apparently an evolved offshoot of C. They have PL/SQL...

I can see how a more focused AI with built in safeguards would be better suited than ChatGPT for applications like self driving cars or customer service.

FYI: I think this...

The discounted pricing model for Azure "Spot" VMs is an interesting option, if you're wanting to run a development environment for the SQL Server \ SSIS \ SSAS \ SSRS...

Even better than just a Git repository, our team uses Atlassian. First, we create an internal Confluence blog post that documents how to use the script and it's implementation (similar...