A best practice I use is to ensure that tasks which are known to have significantly different durations to complete are carried out in different branches. This, I find, is...

Could have been worse...someone could have called in a penetration expert 😉

Has this turned into SQLServerConfessional.com?

I am with Steve on this one. Judicial use of 3rd parties is essential. Sometimes no 3rd party software (be they tools, services or controls) is needed but sometimes it...

Every application/system should have a regression test plan delivered as part of the first delivery. This should also form part of the DR plan. Otherwise how can you know that...

I think that when the previous decade or two are looked back upon from a historical perspective that manual patching will seem very backward.Steve is absolutely right in suggesting that...

If developers call stored procedures and load (preferably encrypted, preferably integrated authentication) connection strings from a repository (even a file) then none of this is an issue. I cannot remember the...

I am still amazed at how many people here come across long term SQL Server practitioners who don't know what a clustered index is. I cannot remember how long ago,...