I'm not sure what the interval represented in the graph is, but I've seen something similar when our DR backup software kicks in. Our spikes aren't anywhere near 100% CPU...

There is always some drudgery in *anything* you do, no matter how passionate you may be about doing it. Having said that, I will say I'm extremely lucky to have...

This might be heresy 😛 but this sounds like like you could use flag values that are outside the allowed domain of Marks.

I'm not sure what...

Have you thought about reverse-engineering the database into an ERD tool like ModelRight? That way you can get the majority of the documentation in a visual CAD like format, and...

If DevOps is cooperation between Developers and Operations admins then would a one person IT department by definition be DevOps? 🙂

In a one person IT department, in a...

Nulls are an abomination.

The problem is their ambiguity. Not in the literal sense of "data is missing" but in the sense of "WHY is this data missing".

If you're...

Oh egads, I've forgotten all the languages (and dialects of languages) I've had over my development career.

Let's see, in high school it was:
IBM O26 and O29 Keypunch...

Dangerous tools are dangerous.

The problem with the cloud is near-infinite attack surface. Sure, TDE will help--until someone gets hold of the encryption key. Every system as a weak...

Here, here.

I think part of the problem has always been defining "productivity". Too often it's measured in lines of code or some other facile method that means absolutely...

Oooohhh, boy, did this one ever bite me in the butt...

Ok, the OTLT is a bad idea in general, because of what everyone else has said. There are a...