I'm with Jeff on this one, if I were to rate an "Assistant" or a Secretary, I'd far rather have a live, smart human being in the role.  Both because...

I work in US FedGov and we're required to have SQL Audits running and basically capturing everything...

I'm also sad to say I got the question wrong, because I let myself...

I've got several USB flash drives, one each in the two cars with music on them, one exclusively for our 3D printer (BTW, if anyone has a 4GB USB 1-1.1...

The timing on this article is spot-on, as I just (mostly) wrapped up a migration of my production instances to SQL 2019.  I fall into the "never do an in-place,...

So my personal laptop has a fingerprint sensor, and I do use it, but there's nothing on the laptop that would cause me grief if someone gained access to it...

Time to ask the boss if this is too early to start the process for next year!  🙂

Somedays my job can be frustrating...

**WARNING**  Poor, poor pitiful me whine incoming!

All set to go to my first ever Summit and the nitwits who control the budget were at an...

I suspect I've got a couple application databases that could be moved to SQL on Linux, they don't use SSIS or SSRS (and, yes, we're still using SSRS) and the...

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I'm crossing my fingers that my employer approves my request for funding to go to Summit this year.  My supervisor feels it's almost certain, but...

As a side note...

On the one day a week I drive into the office for a day, I usually put on our local all-news-all-the-time AM station.  Mostly to catch traffic and weather.  I'm...

I'm crossing my fingers that my employer approves my request for funding to go to Summit this year.  My supervisor feels it's almost certain, but...

As a side note for folks...

A couple years back there was an article about being able to keep an "autonomous" vehicle from moving, by simply making a large circle around it on the ground with...

So I can't answer for sure, but I've looked at enabling AD authentication from Azure and it, at least with what I have available, seems to be a bit "finicky." ...