Very good point, Phil. OK then, I'm going to proceed with sucking the spreadsheets into SQL and start playing around with it.

Thank you, Phil.

Interesting perspective, Steve. I agree with a lot of what you say, but not everything. As a developer, I do enjoy looking at new technologies and techniques. And I do...

I work for a large state agency, with a DBA staff. As far as I know, this is covered, at least for all of the databases we have.

I lived in Arizona for 10 years. Loved the fact that state doesn't change to Daylight Savings Time.

Nitin, I would prefer to work with someone like the senior Business Analyst you described. And even more so, I'd rather be like her. (I don't believe I am.) She...

What concerns me, with the increase use of AI and ML, is the intentional suppression or exclusion of some data. I've seen this in action. My previous job was working...

I've known of synonyms in SQL Server for years, but haven't created them. Definitely can see the usefulness of them, especially when some tables' named have been appended with things...

In my previous job I was primarily a developer. However, I also managed our SQL Server and our Active Directory. In one location we moved to I helped pull cable...

We use NuGet a lot for .NET development. Love it. We've talked about setting up a NuGet server, so we could deploy our own packages in-house. I know this is...

Thinking about what you said, Jeff, I believe you're right. There's a lot of "a database is just a fancy file folder" mentality. Therefore, those who tend and maintain it,...