Mr. Livingston, I love that animation ... :laugh:

This would actually be a good interview question. If the candidate laughs or responds only with raised eyebrows, then they answered correctly.

It may have to do with the order in which the databases are created when SQL Server is initially installed. 
I can also see why SQL Server would want to...

... Bruce Schneier has called for regulation of IoT devices. Most people resist any sort of regulatory approach, but I'm not sure this is a bad idea. Not specifics,...

Where I work, we've embraced the Slack platform and have a channel dedicated to database alert notifications and SlackBot driven queries. 
For example: "dba, is server prod-002 up?" gives both...

The industry of SQL coding suffers from the same predicament as HTML; a lot of folks code it, but few truly know it at a professional level. Consider how many...

The problem with allowing applications to talk with a database the same way they talk to an object or web service isn't so much about translating the mismatch between JSON...

Corporate or municipal sponsored "Christmas" parties (and even most family gatherings), have practically nothing to do with the Christian tradition in the first place, so changing the name is simply...

For a large or geographically distributed organization, these yearly holiday events are perhaps the only opportunity you have see some of your coworkers in person or at least to have...

If the judge issuing the warrant doesn't know the meaning of the term "256 bit AES encrypted", then this case will drag on a lot longer than he initially anticipated.

There need be no mismatch between the object-oriented world and the relational because we, as data people, can now do all the worrying about the translation in both directions,...

How long until a database server needs to be upgraded really depends on the rate of data growth and usage patterns.