Steve, you are correct that occasional mistakes should not warrant dismissal. There are various forms of a quote that go something like: If you're not making mistakes, then you're not...

A few months back, I was migrating about 4 TB of databases from a datacenter in Atlanta to New Jersey. Across a 1 GigaBit / sec network connection, there were...

My advice to someone getting started in their career, or looking for a career, is don't let others pigeonhole you into a specific role. Instead, think deeply about who you...

When I'm wearing the DBA hat, I really don't comment much at all regarding the application developer's choice of naming convention, because ultimately they are the one's who have to...

... I was faced with this question of delayed gratification recently outside of work. I was playing one of my time wasting games on my phone. I was tempted...

I'd rather focus on normalization of the data model as a whole rather fretting over naming conventions, because there are functional consequences for getting the normalization wrong. But, yes, consistency...

I believe data can help transform the world for the better, but I also believe that at this point in time the public has access to sufficient data to make...

In SSMS, when viewing the 'Execution Plan' tab of the result grid and hovering over a plan operator or row pipe, it would be nice if row counts were formatted...