Defending yourself from hackers is a lot like dealing with insects. You have to keep the goods locked up tight behind firewalls and encryption, and then lay out some honeypot...

Data breaches are becoming as common and "situation normal" as pot holes in the road. There seems to be this prevailing attitude that, if one "important" person has their identity...

What is that; your attempt at free-verse poetry?

There are a lot of folks with non-genuine (unlicensed and/or unregistered) installs of Windows. Even today, weeks after Microsoft supplied a fix for the wannacry exploit and a legitimate upgrade path...

...Another thing we can all get mad at Microsoft about is that they’re not supporting Windows XP any more with patches and fixes (although they did issue an unprecedented...

I alternate between the default and custom themes, but regardless of whether it's light or dark, I prefer a more limited number of colors in the theme, and I prefer...

What's going on could be the result of a mis-configured schema sync or deployment tool; perhaps where the target is inadvertently pointing to production instead of the intended development instance.

I'd like to see SQL Server add a build-in feature for caching result-sets. Today, Riak is commonly leveraged by web application developers to do this in the middle layer, but...