That's a good point, Steve. I had been forgetting about giving them time to "come around".

Good article, Steve. Thank you for sharing the State of DevOps 2019. I've downloaded last year's and this year's. It's interesting to see what has been learned, the impact of...

I'm not familiar with sys.columns....

Do we view the user "view definitions" permissions on just the view, or the whole database?

20 years! WOW! I have had an opportunity to play around with SQL Compare as a trial product, and did like it very much. As a developer I'm not one...

I hear ya, Ray. I also struggle with modifying other people's code, unless they've asked me to or I've been assigned to do it. Anyway, one of my coworkers absolutely...

Boy, I see this a lot. In fact, I think I see IT and developer people relying solely on their experience much more often than trying anything new. It's very...

I appreciate this post/article, Steve. You've been talking about GDPR for over a year now. I consider it appropriate and hope that something like it comes to the US, where...

I agree with you, Steve. Unfortunately, I also see some systems which make changing data extremely hard. I've spoken about it here before. I'm pleased to say that it has...

Very interesting article. I never thought of automating the production of sample or test data. We never made sample/test data at my old job. In my current job, the creation...

I wasn't familiar with the term runbook, so I looked it up.

At home I've got an old desktop, with two 1-TB HD's. It is what I do much of my training on. This is at least 5 years old and is...

Most phishing scams are automated and impersonal, while other scams hit closer to home. For example, last year my grandmother got a call from a guy pretending to be...

I get some amazingly creative ones from HR services, though luckily none have hit the right one we use at Redgate. I also get a few great ones that...

The large state government agency I work for is often under phishing attacks as well as other penetration attacks. We've got a good security team (kudos to them!) who work...