Notice that I didn't say it is more secure. But perhaps that shouldn't be the only thing we think about when evaluating security?

Do we have a good breach plan? What...

Free and Open source software allow you to take action on a flaw without being dependent on the vendor.

I thought you were a SSCer for life.

They would be lucky to have you Steve

The genius of Microsoft is the unit sale. The cloud seems like more of service business.

It will be interesting how they will compete if it doesn't drive license sales.

Their data...

This series will be nice to have on a #sqlserverwiki

Stackexchange is a so-so community, but their database is awesome!

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2677/database-schema-documentation-for-the-public-data-dump-and-sede

Tiger data:

TIGER/Line® Shapefiles and TIGER/Line® Files

http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html?eml=gd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Well, if you are willing to post updates to your article as they drip in, that will work just as well.

Thanks for your efforts.

This page would truly work better as a wiki than a post and comments.

The single most helpful tool I don't see regularly used is a table count and date on all the tables, followed by a periodic grab of the data.

Obviously a trace...

The link I posted shows 221 lines of holidays in the U.S. in 2016:

That would tip it toward asking the appropriate person(s) what should be followed.

DateWeekdayHoliday nameHoliday typeWhere it is...

I always find this webpage helpful: http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/ for figuring out all the different details.

And you want to discourage that?

It favors the large in that the process still requires significant capital in addition to just having the aggregated data to actually do something with the data at scale.