MDS (Master Data Services) is one feature I wish Microsoft would deprecate. From a database engineering, management, and performance perspective; it simply sucks.

I'd like to see some effort...

If I were to go back to school, I'd probably peruse a MBA degree or MIS (Management of Information Systems) degree; something that would augment what I already know (database...

I'm not saying that a traditional university degree is not beneficial; it does make one a more rounded person, and I can understand why organizations would be skeptical of someone's...

The healthcare, higher education, and banking industries are in bad need of reform. They seem intentionally structured to utilize whatever take home pay an average middle class person has after...

Dating back to 2002, SSRS has had export to PDF functionality. I'd use that.

The excessive reads probably have to do with triggers, indexes, and foreign key constraints. It's also possible that the number of reads are reasonable but it's just getting a lot...

Perhaps we're not really talking about the need for (2) data warehouses but rather an architecture of multiple distributed databases that are federated into a single logical data warehouse (think...

SSMS, MSSQL, VisualStudio, Slack and Chrome can be memory hogs, and I often times must choose 3 out of 5 at any given time, so the most wanted upgrade for...

Like I said earlier, the id assignment of system databases simply results from the order in which the database are created during installation. It has nothing to do with startup....

... This is the same reason why I'd say that it's worth sticking with a database platform or two and not experimenting with each new type of system that...