Kind of related, but some data warehousing platforms like Snowflake support full result-set caching.

https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/Understanding-Result-Caching

I can see this feature as applicable to OLTP databases like SQL Server as well. For...

I have nightmares about losing a thumb drive. If you're going to do this, then use BitLocker or an encrypted .zip file.

If you have an existing on-prem server and infrastructure, staff with development and system admin skills, and you don't have a need to easily scale up / down your CPU...

Nobody even mentions the state of the art AI, technical skill, and creativity the organizers put into these deep fake presenters.

Something else that's been around for a very long time - to the point of being standard practice - are organizations (especially IT) that use stock photos of happy young...

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Also, we deserve extra points, if we post our answer in ANSI standard YYYY-MM-DD format.

It seems that the process of performing a factory reset on a Tesla car is remarkably similar to an iPhone.

https://www.findmyelectric.com/blog/how-to-clear-reset-tesla-to-factory-settings/

A few months back, I bought a used 2017 model...

A few weeks ago, I purchased a handful of flood / freeze detectors for my Ring security system.

Also, it would be an interesting project to buy some solar panels and...

Also, if you want to enforce a constraint of 1 .. X rows, leverage an identity column combined with a check constraint.

For example, the following allows a max of 3...

I work for a retailer, and we have our version of a Black Friday sale, but we mostly lease / sell furniture and appliances, so it's not the same as...

I've never really been much into tech gadgets, but I would like to have something like a 50" wide-screen display with a wrap-around screen for multi-tasking - or playing Red...

I think most seasoned DBAs, those of us who have been in the industry for more than a decade, can tolerate variations in naming conventions, even multiple conventions being used...

This seems like a discussion from just the other day - but it was actually six years ago!

Here is my thinking about it:

Some tables represent entities that are "top level"...

Necessity is usually the mother of IT consulting.

There is nothing "heroic" about establishing yourself as a lynchpin, keeping your co-workers in the dark about how things work, and then bailing one day for a better job.

Of course,...