That is...

At my old company, data was managed very haphazardly and pretty much anyone could get access to systems internally if they asked the right people. SOX made us tighten down...

Low Hanging Fruit is one that I hear often related to easy to execute tasks, easily solveable problems, etc. As in, "these items that the client is requesting are low...

I worked for a company where we ended up optimizing the application code for a third party app that was critical to our operations. The applications support was not very...

Shouldn't the vote choices actually be Accidental or Intentional? I would say incidental and accidental are more or less the same where someone becomes a DBA out of necessity whereas...

Maybe I am confused....

On MSDN it states in the article, "How to: Enable Encrypted Connections to the Database Engine (SQL Server Configuration Manager)":

"To use encryption with a failover cluster,...

I saw algebrizer as replacing normalizer or parser. It looks like the terms are often used interchangeably. Oh well, it made me look up something new!

This QOD had trick question written all over it, or so it seemed to me. I almost chose .mdf and .ndf based on the word "database" in the question but...

Sadly enough this is true. It's when you get back that cross training and documentation all of a sudden become priorities to management. At my company they are including documentation...

I have found that the need to do extra work before going on vacation depends on your position in the job. If you are in a position where you are...

I second that!! 🙂

I would generally agree that letting users manage their own PCs is a bad idea especially in a large corporation where users run a number of different applications on a...

After looking the question over some more, I can see why the answers were written out the way they were. The GO statements were put in there to separate the...

I think the question and answers here could have been worded better.

sp_configure 'clr enabled', 1 actually enables clr while sp_configure 'clr enabled', 1 GO RECONFIGURE GO, in...

I agree with Andy's comments to contribute to your level of ability while continually pushing your own boundaries. I forward SQL articles that I find from all over to employees...