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Thank you for this article. I've never worked with Oracle, so this brought up a lot of things I wasn't aware of, with Oracle.

There's one small subtopic from your article...

Thank you for this article. It's a great reminder to be open to new or different technologies.

I do have one question though. In the article you wrote that you, "Lean...

I've been somewhat in your shoes, Grant. My former boss, when he left for vacation or some other leave, would ask me to cover for him in meetings, make decisions...

Congratulations, Steve! Have a good time off.

There's a lot in today's article, but at the moment I can only touch on a few of them. I believe that the place where I work has a lot...

No, Jeff, I have never figured out what was causing SSMS to pop up that window, although whatever it was, it has gone away.

Excellent article and advice, Grant.

I don't...

I am a developer and as you suggested using source control is second nature for developers. I hesitated before answering since I felt you were asking DBAs. However, I am...

I have a couple of friends who are in the cyber-security.  I used to imagine that hacking was done by technical geniuses operating at a level of capability far...

I completely agree with you, Louis, that having someone to bounce ideas off of helps so much in searching for answers you need. Sometimes that isn't always possible, such as...

Thank you, Grant. I've found that on SO, "Bill" is the only tyrant I've had to...

Hey Grant, thank you for your post on this topic. It touches upon a wound for me which still hurts. About 8 years ago I was assigned to be my...

I prefer doing the database first, then moving out from there. My preference is to do as much system design as possible, the implement the database, after that APIs, then...