Well, maybe. Your suggestion of hiring from outside to jump start new technologies in a company works only if the environment is conducive to that. The state department where...

I use to work at a place that almost always promoted from within. The benefit is that you save about 6 months of time since the new team member comes...

This is a hard topic to address and think about. I've interviewed several people to join our team throughout my career, but I've never been a part of a...

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AOG is great, because having all read-only queries routed to one or more secondary nodes will take the load off the primary where the ETL load takes place. However,...

With increasing costs, I assume many companies that use to think SQL HA technologies are a must-have now think the opposite.

I don't remember where I read it, but some SQL...

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An awful lot of the uses of AI feel like leaning a ladder on the branch of a tall tree, then climbing it to saw the branch nearest the...

There are areas of tech debt I would like to address; however, doing so takes time, money and an acceptance that the necessary changes require the people who need...

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Isn't this purely a problem caused by poor management? The article mentions another statistic about 46% workers don't know what is expected of them.

As a manager, I have expectations of...

Interesting post! Would Dynamic Data Masking be the tool to use here?  I"m assuming not, since the data could be unmasked on the development server. Thus the actual data would...

Thanks! took...

You do realize that the addition of the new index requires space that might not have been available and that dropping the first NCI made a bunch of space...

Since we don't have much info on your setup, this is a stab in the dark:

1. Are you in a virtual environment? Is it shared? could be a noisy neighbor...

Hey All,

Thank you for the answers!

My first thought would be to check the is_Snapshot column. It could be the case that the backup is being taken by a snapshot.

I did about 10 years of on-call work as a DBA. From my experience, it seems like 10 years of on-call is about the limit for most people in data....