Very good editorial, Kathi. I was never fortunate enough to go to a PASS Summit. I have enjoyed SQL Saturdays and will dearly miss them. Most years have positives and...

We also watch Miracle on 34th Street, with Natalie Wood, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne and Edmund Gwenn, in black and white (the best way to watch it). Note: Edmund Gwenn...

These mostly seem obvious, but I'll bite.

1. Pizza
2. Networking
3. Learning what new technologies I should consider
4. Hearing justifications for why my management should (or shouldn't) consider a technology
5. Understanding...

About two years ago I decided it was time for me, personally, to move away from TFVC and start using Git. Two years later, I feel like I know, at...

This is the first I've heard of the Arecibo telescope collapsing! I'm shocked and saddened. Years ago, I worked at the National Radio Astronomical Observatory's Very Large Array (VLA), in...

(Strange, the editor for this forum won't let me enter anything after the C# code I entered. So, to continue...)

I do this to all public methods. Private methods, I figure,...

I don't use named parameters, although C# does support them. We've adopted using what's called Summary comments to decorate methods or properties. This is done by starting a comment before...

The big failures in companies I see adopt DevOps is that they don't

1. test more, especially automated testing
2. include more instrumentation and get metrics/data/feedback from the operation or deployment...

In my previous job, working in a small IT shop, we all wore lots of hats. We were IT, DBAs and developers. But I now realize that experience isn't typical...

In my final DBA position before retirement, patching and bug fixes were usually provided quickly and accurately but were most often sidelined by 'project managers' too timid to allow...

Steve, I am very thankful for your coping tips. They have meant a lot to me. When we passed the 6 months of this pandemic, I didn't think much of...

I agree, Steve!

I agree with you both. You make good points, Jonathan. I work in one of my state's largest state government departments. We were not prepared for COVID. It has been...

Very interesting article. Fits in with other material I'm reading and listening to. I hadn't thought of the likelihood that developers or DBAs might not want to experiment. After all,...

Good question, @pietlinden. I think they do mean by date. Most likely DateReceived in the PharmInventoryIn table. Getting the oldest one of a group all related to the same series...