I think there is room for at least a couple of AI or ML literate people in any large IT organization, but let's not get carried away with the idea....

To make this more transparent, I encrypt using session level symmetric keys and wrap a view around each table to provide the decrypted computed columns.

We use a product called SecretServer to manage our service account passwords, certificates, etc. across the enterprise. It also has a web service based API for integration with PowerShell scripts...

Yes, altering column definition from INT to BIGINT is a change of size operation, meaning that every page in the table and every page in every index (clustered and non-clustered)...

Just wait until government regulators start issuing automobile recalls based on IoT equipment failure or security issues. Some may see it as an unprofitable risk. Shareholders and the corporate board...

I totally get the potential value of IoT enabled assembly plants, commercial transport vehicles, or shipping containers. But when it comes to embedding IoT in consumer facing products (like automobiles...

Tell us when the "slowness" occurs and what is it relative to. For example, have you recently migrated this instance to Hyper-V and then the problem occurred, or has it...

One thing I noticed at SQL Saturday here in Atlanta a couple of weekends back, Amazon AWS had a significant presence with three sessions.

It seems to me that for a company to simply replace employees with AI or robotics is taking a short view. Automated vending machines that sell hot sandwiches have their...

.. When I run the package, I run into PK issue. so I tried truncating the table but it is referenced by a FK. What's the best way to...

I think an AI system with the collaborative intelligence of an ant swarm or the independent problem solving skills of a bee would have more useful applications than a sentient...