This totally aligns with what I see. Where I work, I've seen two attempts at trying to adopt DevOps. And I was certain that I would be a part of...

Monitoring your apps to get a baseline is a great idea. It's one that I wish I'd been a part of but haven't ever been. At my old job there...

Steve, why is it that code reuse in T-SQL, in particular refactoring, results in performance penalties? I'm ignorant as to why this is so. Just trying to learn more, thank...

Taking off my DBA hat and putting on my developer hat. I agree with Steve that we need to think through scenarios for the code we write. Can we...

Grant, I like the title of your post, "An Eclectic Mix to Start the New Year". Being brutally honest with myself, my career has been haphazard. Since 2014 when I...

My wins for 2021 were outside of my job, doing personal improvements on my own. I've updated my skills to use current abilities to write APIs and ASP.NET Core MVC...

I'm a software developer and like many software developers said to you, Steve, I totally LOVE working from home!!!

It certainly was true that a lot of our business had to...

Right. Sorry I didn't express it that way.

Kathi, what you're doing at LaunchCode is great! I can understand your desire to work there. I wish something like this had been around when I started out in tech.

Excellent admonition, Grant. This year we lost a pillar in my area, in our .NET user group. Tom Murdock died in a freak accident this autumn. Tom's passing won't have...

@Grant and everyone else, I'd like to ask a follow-up question. When I first tried to perform a SELECT to the SalesLT.Customer table in the  AdventureWorksLT database I put into...

Not your router. Azure, by default, locks down your databases. You cannot connect to them without specifically allowing identified IP addresses. So, it's youre IP address that you need...

This could be fun...

I still use a clock radio alarm to wake myself in the mornings. There's a certain satisfaction beating on the snooze button several times before actually...

Hey Grant, you're correct, I haven't opened a hole in my firewall. I'd be doing this from two separate places. Currently, I'm still working from home (thank God), so I'd...

I used to define myself by my work.  Full-on, 100% of the time.  I became known for some of the tools I created, and for some of the things...