Good article, Steve. I really appreciate your suggestion of putting monthly reminders into Outlook to check on your progress! I'm going to adopt that.

This year, for me, as been better...

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You need to have the right privileges to run sp_logininfo. I don't, on some of our systems.

Politics. It's all politics.

WOW, JJ, that online conference experience you related sounds exactly like that Grant and I would like to have! Thank you for sharing your awesome experience!!

It is important to keep trying to crack that nut, as you put it. The solutions used at Ignite/Build and those I've seen in other conferences for small business, all...

Thanks Rod. Yeah, you've hit the nail on the head. While I found the hybrid model put together by the conference to work pretty well. It still didn't get...

Grant, I am so pleased you've asking this question! In previous jobs I had the opportunity to attend lots of in-person conferences. In my current job, I was only able...

This is an interesting editorial, Steve. I'm not sure I've worked in any place that really offered lots of "beer mode" type of work. My current position certainly doesn't. But...

A very thought-provoking editorial, Steve. I work at a large state government department, where I've felt for years, DevOps would help tremendously to improve our systems. But the political pressure...

I agree that knowing the basics is very important. Recently I interviewed with a company I had hoped to get into. I didn't get past the first interview. Upon hearing...

We are having a work conference this week at Redgate. In previous years, we rented a space for a few days and literally ran a conference. Booths were from...

A very good friend of mine, used to talk about something with a name like "Dev Pack", or "Business Pack", or something like that. Unfortunately, he...

Thank you, Grant. Guess I'll look again at an MSDN license. The Enterprise license, especially to establish the license, is exorbitant. At least for an individual. Perhaps the Professional level...

I like your point of view, Sean. I adopted the same, "know something about everything and everything about something", although I didn't put it so succinctly. For me, though, a...

I really like your article, @Grant. It succinctly states the dichotomy between needing to keep learning and the subject one's learning constantly changing. It's tough, but I understand your desire...