Topics of saving scripts into source control, such as Git, are great. And I'm all for it. However, I'm sure that where I work the DBAs don't put any scripts,...

I'm one who has a very long commute. However, I don't tend to work more than 40 hours a week. For more reasons than I know, everyone (developers, DBAs, etc.)...

WOW, huge topic, Steve! The state agency I work for has a huge number of legacy systems. I'm on a team that's trying to replace some of these legacy systems,...

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Very interesting article, Steve. I especially enjoyed the analysis on the Vox website.

Here at work we're taking baby steps towards introducing Agile project management. Good for us. Waterfall has been...

We appear to be standardizing on SQL Server 2016. I work for a large state agency, so I don't know all of the applications we have. Of the ones I...

I just spoke with the manager whose heading up our exploration of the Azure Stack. Unfortunately, due to personnel changes and other projects gaining higher priority, exploration of the Azure...

I know of one of our managers, who works in our Production Services Bureau (our IT group) that is experimenting with the Azure Stack. He's provisioned a big machine where...

You can write DDL triggers to prevent connections with Excel and Access?! I didn't know that! Guess we're going to have to look into that.

Very relevant to me. I've been using Microsoft's HealthVault service for a few years now. I literally use it daily, to record my weight for that day. I like the...

For a year or so, I've decided to adopt Git for my personal VCS. I have to ride a train to work, because I live far from where I work....

As far as Integrated Authorization goes, how do you detect that? How can do determine that a user is trying to access tables within a SQL Server database using Microsoft...

And thank you for the mention of Sonarqube. I've never heard of it, but looking at it a little bit, it looks like it would be useful.

Good article, Steve. I've got a few comments about it. First, I completely agree that having more secure code, to begin with, will help prevent problems down the road. However,...

My first, real programming job was in the private sector; manufacturing. This was before the company adopted a SQL-based RDBMS. We worked on VAXes, where the OS was VMS (if...

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We're doing it piecemeal. Right now it's being investigated by IT, in small ways. Some databases are there; some networking and dabbling with Azure AD. I tried, unsuccessfully, to get...