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...

Those are good points, Steve. And perhaps I'm being too harsh on the network folks. With networking a major portion of it is out of our control. We use CenturyLink...

Great topic, Steve. I'm with you, I'd had to develop a monitoring system, because I now know the system being monitored would likely change. Who wants to constantly upgrading your...

I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I'm not proposing storing the connection information in TFS. Rather I'm asking how can I switch which connection I use? Specifically, in this case, because...

Good article. And as others have said, I want to thank those who are Microsoft MVPs, and those who weren't "bronze level" and above, for your help on the numerous...

Thank you very much, Peter. Now, I'm concerned about SSRS and how we're trying to go to it. I work for a large state agency, so reporting is a huge...

Since we use SSRS then Azure SQL Server is out the door immediately. Typically I'd love for us to be using the latest and greatest SQL Server but our...

Too many issues here to give a blatant Yes or No to. Progress inevitably means impact to people's jobs. Sometimes whole segments of jobs are powerfully impacted. I'm sure that...

Andrey, I've gotta admit, I didn't see that comin'. OK then, thank you!