Welcome back, Steve. I've missed you. Although I'd like to say that Kathi, Kendra and Grant did a great job, while you were away.

Kendra, wishing you and your husband all the best as you start your new adventure.

I think you are right, Mike. I'm certain that in my position I don't have the clout to effect change. Developers and DBAs are viewed as people who keep their...

This article, Kendra, comes at a critical time for my work, which in the last 18 months had begun to adopt a more agile approach to software development. We have...

Great advice, Grant. I'm much like you. I exercise (at home - gym membership at the moment isn't possible) 3 times a week. I am allowed only 2, 15-minute breaks...

I know, from working for a documentation company, that there are guidelines based on studies that say how much can be proofread within a given time period.

I can't imagine...

You make a good point, David. I've wondered how much code makes a good code review. As Frederico suggests, reviewing a 10K stored procedure is probably too excessive. Whereas reviewing...

I have never been fortunate enough to work for someone who does code reviews. Even in my current job, with lots of developers and 3 DBAs, there's no code review....

A thousand likes on this editorial, Grant! WOW, I've never heard of juice jacking or the rest of it. In this case, ignorance although it may be bliss, it can...

I'm envious, Rick. You're environment sounds like one I'd like to work in. I understand my management's decision, made long before I came here, to adopt lots of vendors software...

Rick (skeleton567), I like your answer. Probably the majority of our databases are related to vendor applications, so they control the database schema and we're not allowed to change anything.

But...

Grant, I like your bringing in the analogy of Sisyphus and his endless task of rolling a large rock up a hill, to have it only roll down again as...

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Thank you for sharing your experience, Jonathan. I can see how, if you had separate dev databases it would have made it easier for you. In my environment there's a...

Very interesting editorial, Kendra. You've mentioned a lot that I've never heard of before, such as SQL Provision or other tooling to mask/de-identify production data. I've never worked anywhere, where...

In terms of Access tricks that might help with lag:  once you've moved the data to SQL server there isn't much rationale for requiring everyone to access the SAME...