Igor, I'm not following you when you talk about a "System DBA" rather than a generalist/application DBA. Sorry for being so dense, but could you please that more, please?

Personally, I just wish I could attend a conference!!! My current employer doesn't allow anyone to go anywhere. They haven't, ever, as far as I know.

I think a lot of this is influenced by the corporate environment or at least the department/section you're in. For example, at my previous job I worked on a small...

I appreciate this article Steve and the one you linked to. Actually assigning some measure to technical debt is a great idea.

I've considered the technical debt I've...

Challenging article, Steve. For me, it hits closer to home, rather than work. Probably like everyone whose a member of SQL Server Central, I'm a convergent thinker. It comes naturally,...

I'm involved in a re-write of an old MS Access application into a WPF app (at least, there may be more). I've discussed this in these forums before. The Access...

It is a common practice here to use schemas. At first I balked against it, but have come to realize that using schemas is a good practice.

If I could, I'd give this article a billion likes. The overwhelming majority of apps that we have here are very old apps. Some using old technologies no one knows,...