Good questions you've raised, Steve. Like you, I tend to hold onto emails for long times. At my old job we had fewer resources, so we were involved in getting...

This change in how Microsoft is pushing out updates, using CU's instead of SP's, is going to through some people off, I think. I've known enough DBA's what only seem...

Sounds like you're definitely further down this cloud road, then I am, Steve. Sage advise, thank you for sharing it!

I don't agree with you on this one, Steve. There's a lot of MS Access apps around here, where I work. I was told by the head DBA that a...

Since the introduction of machine learning (ML) I've been quite interested in it. It involves statistics, which I enjoy. But I can see how something like ML might not work...

This is a topic which has concerned me for a long time. In my previous job there were ladies who used the software we wrote to do their jobs. These...

WOW, very interesting article, Steve. It leaves me very ambivalent. I loved doing the DBA work I did at my old job, where I had to wear several different hats....

Interesting article. Without realizing I was doing ELT as recently as last weekend. I had to pull a lot of data into a database, but was struggling with finding a...

I remember starting out with SQL Server 6.5 as well. This was at my previous job. We eventually moved up to SQL 2012. But through all of that we used...