In my old job we didn't use any custom schemas. In fact, I didn't quite understand them. In my current job its common practice to define custom schemas. I've learned...

Its been a few years since I've been to any conference, what with unemployment and now working for an organization that doesn't believe in sending any of their IT people...

I can related to your point about building features that aren't used. The team that I'm on have to follow a certain pattern, when developing applications, to show the user...

Very good article, Steve. It is tough when people take their lives. I suppose we've all experienced the loss of someone you knew, who decided life was too hard. I've...

Steve, what do you mean by, "In today's SQL twilight zone..."?

Data migrations is something that I've seen for years. It appears in just about every training course I've ever had (in my previous job), blog posts, etc. As a developer...

I really agree with the sentiment of Alex Yates, but I wouldn't take it as far as he does. Working in a location where there's little other opportunities, I don't...

Where I work they tend to use keyboards until they literally fall apart. After 2 months working here I got tired of working on keyboards that were at least 10...

You are correct. :crazy:

I found it. Some how I set up a rule in Outlook.com, to consider all emails from SQL Server Central Subscription account as junk mail. I'm sorry about that. And...

Hi Steve,

Is this where you're talking about?

If so, I'm sure I've done something there. Perhaps clicked on the top most checkbox, with a caption of "Topics",...