My only interactions with Robert were for a few short months in the SQL Server forums over on Spiceworks.  In that time I came to know him as knowledgeable and...

My current title, which I landed just over a month ago, is IT Systems Engineer.  In effect, I'm a one-man IT department.  Combine equal parts System Admin, DBA, and lead...

I did SQLSaturday in Washington DC a couple of times (didn't get there last year, though) which is just a bit over 60 miles, probably about the limit I would...

I've been in the same place as the article describes and wound up in my current position which I am very happy with. I was doing field support and...

chulo13 (7/1/2016)

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Hello everyone.

I would like to know if it is possible to use SQL Server Management Studio at home so I can learn SQL. I know a little bit...

I've set up multiple gmail accounts, one for my personal stuff and others for websites and techinical sites. Works out pretty well.

One of the other issues involved using emails...

roger.plowman (6/24/2016)

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Being a lone wolf developer I've not had the luxury of NOT designing databases from scratch. Been doing it for 16 years now and learned a few things along...

And to think, we went to the moon and back on 32 thousand bytes of memory (I believe some of the early Apollo spacecraft had only 16K).

The only surprising thing is it has taken so long to become a reality. I remember reading an article in Omni magazine several decades ago when public-key encryption was...

My creations these days are exclusively abstracted via views and procedures. Some time ago I learned how to use Visual Studio build configurations to quickly switch between Dev, Test...

Sean Redmond (6/5/2016)

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For anyone who likes this sort of deviousness, then the English comedy series 'Yes Minister!' and 'Yes, Prime Minister' are well worth watching.

There may even be episodes up...

richlion2 (5/24/2016)

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Hi,

there is one phrase I don't understand in this article:

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/ever-increasing-clustering-key-the-clustered-index-debate-again/

What does this mean?

Lookup key for...

My job is to make sure my customers - be they internal or external - have the data they need when they need it to be successful in their...

I've moved around for a job for various reasons, but mostly so I could find something I liked doing and still have a reasonable commute (1/2 hour tops for me).

In...

I've tinkered with it off and on, and I'd hardly call it "intimidating". Definitely a learning curve, though, like anything else.

I put a Powershell for Beginners course on my...