Outstanding article, Steve! You hit the nail on the head with this one.

I'm one of those guilty developers who used an IE control in one or two Windows applications I've written over the years. At present those apps aren't in use. (The...

FWIW, Jeff, it would be great to see a list of common SQL problems that people ought to be able to solve. I'd add in

• running totals
• deserializing XML...

I am working to improve my skills in DevOps and/or cloud and my biggest challenge is this.... My day-to-day org is not very technically mature meaning my direct users...

@jeff Moden, I really like what you wrote in response to my comment! Being comfortable is a real thing, as you say. And I've been guilty of doing that, too....

Most of my IT coworkers aren't even interested in improving their skills on the company nickel. They will only improve their skills if whatever old technology is permanently removed, so...

Steve, I agree with you 1000%. Where I work, we're experiencing a 30% vacancy rate. (The several reasons I won't go into now.) But there's culture here which is perpetuated...

I do think backups make sense, but I tend to use cloud services. Backblaze for my machine(s), Evernote/OneDrive/Dropbox for lots of docs, and then FB/Google for photos/video.

In general, I...

Thank you everyone for your feedback. You're correct, Ken, that in our environment our databases are primarily on-prem, so using Trust server certificate is working. We are moving some of...

Thank you, Ken and Grant, for your responses. I'm wondering how prevalent this change is. Is it specific to a recent upgrade to ADS? Or is it related to a...

This is good news. Given that AI, and I think especially ML, can review the data and make recommendations or raise alerts, can be helpful. The medical staff need to...

The organization I work for is like all those organizations you mentioned which don't have a way of quickly spinning up a database for developers to work against. Our process...

DevOps is Culture, or at least involves culture, is so true! I've been struggling trying to get my organization to change, for years. I also believe that my organization isn't...

Excellent topic, Steve. I'd say I'm good at organizing some things, but as you've put it, I'm realizing I have more of a vertical organizational approach. For example, user group...

Oh, good question Steve. I'm looking forward to reading what other people write. Since I've been in this field for a long time, I've got several stories. I'll share 4...