Interesting article, Nitin. I'd say that over the course of my career, so far, I've had jobs that are interesting and exciting. And I've had jobs that aren't. Currently I...

Your article is timely. Just this morning I received an email from our CIO discussing some possible, detrimental actions in the future for us. I can't share what at this time,...

Steve, I didn't see your response from March 22 until just now. That does look promising. Your cautionary statements about the user's permissions is making me wonder if it wouldn't...

I do not know the answer to your question, Steve. But I do know that  where I work now it is much more formal than I'm used to. However, I...

Another quick question; am I correct in believing that sys.server_principals and sys.server_role_members are system views that return data relevant to the server and not one of the databases? I'm wondering...

So, are you saying that whether I use SMO or not, eventually a SQL SELECT will be performed?\

I posted a similar question in the EF forums on the...

In the past I was able to attend several conferences, some of which involved a product launch. It was very exciting. During the presentations and testimonials from companies who had...

I work in State government, which in our state is traditionally waterfall in practice. I've brought up trying to do some DevOps but it has met with resistance. The single,...

I think I'm like you, Steve. I've use PoSH when I can, but am not an expert at it. Whenever I'm using SSMS or Visual Studio I depend a great...