I use a Leuchtturm notebook and fountain pen for meetings and conversations along with OneNote for code snip-its I like to cut and paste so I can maintain my own...

You've hit on a great case for virtualization but also makes me wonder if code is getting worse over time because hardware has become so inexpensive.

Per your last paragraph:

"It constantly surprises me how often I find managers and their organizational culture built to control and not inspire employees to do their best. I think it's...

I do like the option of using provider strings over ODBC DSN's when connecting to ODBC data sources a lot better.  It puts everything in one place and if you...

Am I the only one who really hates dealing with linked servers?

To me hey just seem slow and problematic and modt developers don't know how to query them properly with...

I believe that software design and construction is somewhat of an art form and it will be impossible to make a really good application via algorithm or AI. People...

I second Jeff's last tag because some vendors demand to be the owner of a database. DB_OWNER does not cut it because they don't check roles, just who owns...

One of the contributing factors that fuels the fallacy of sunk costs is the way business is run.  Everyone is so concerned in quarterly profit and stock prices that change...

I am fortunate that I work for a boss who understands this and as long as we can recover and not repeat the same mistakes, it's just part of learning...

This article brings up a lot of frustrations we as DBA's see and it generally reminds me that there are a lot of highly paid consultants who really have no...

This is probably one of the better topics this year as it's a battle we all fight.  On one hand we have our developers and consultants demanding lots of resources...

I've seen that before as well.  The vendor I mentioned needed "SA" because they were creating user tables in the master database.  They even went so much as to fail...

I used to work for an environmental engineering company and they had something similar for larger projects that took more resources than one firm could provide.  They created the company...