Oh, I just remembered I also have a USB-C hub to connect everything up to the ThinkPad.

Most of my employers provided me with laptops for my sole work machine...

Decades ago I bought a 36" D x 72" L x 28" H desk and the matching 18" D x 72"W x 28" H credenza from my father-in-law when his...

We use tags, but having a standard naming convention really keeps the confusion to a minimum. Something like "LA34532345454" would make me cry.

We have a very long internal wiki page...

I was once laid off as part of a purge initiated by a new manager several levels above me in a company of 70+ thousand people. He simply sorted a...

In your case, the receiving system (at the airport) should have had alerting set up that the needed task had not been assigned or completed. But it wouldn't be crazy...

There needs to be a fully closed loop on handoffs between systems. Someone should have been alerted that no one picked up the work order, and/or that an update indicating...

Back in the 1990's I managed CompuServe's fleet of thousands of desktop PCs (not servers) for employee use. I had a lab and an electrical engineer on staff who would...

I am working with an application architected to use a single Azure SQL Database per client (~150), all with identical schemas. These run in Elastic Pools, one for each of...

Top lessons I've learned about employment:

Take charge of your career. Decide what you really enjoy doing and find a job doing that. I waited far too long to pick a...

Kathi/Brian, I was once hired as a SQL Developer by a company that turned out to be held hostage by an Oracle DBA/SQL Developer.  He would not share any information...

I am now in my third job (4 years, then 3 years, now five years) in a row where I am the first DBA in the history of the company....

Here's a blog post that came out today from Erik Darling the shows when this is the best approach for TOP(1) and when using a windowing function can be...

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There are probably a lot of databases out there with CHAR(1) Gender columns with a check constraint ensuring that only M, F, and (maybe) "X" can be stored. Most of...

Steve,

Using Azure Data Factory as a replacement for SQL Agent can be a good idea. Although SQL Agent is free if you need a full SQL instance anyway, if you...

Having worked on a lot of "take this crappy code and make it scale" projects, given what I've heard about the SQLSaturday code and having been an admin for a...