Color me suspicious.

If DevOps was limited to security (i.e. continuous patching of a stable base) then it would probably be a net benefit.

But that's not the...

I wouldn't mind a better syntax for upsert. I mean, the current one is just lazy and stupid *for an upsert*. If the primary key is null, then it's an...

There is no such thing as a secure system, only systems the hacking of which we have not yet discovered.

Sorry for the parphrase but it's true. Security...

SQL Server should *NOT* increase its release cadence, for a few reasons.

1) SMBs invest serious money in even a single copy of SQL Server. I think our copy...

The problem with automatic patching over the long term is cruft. It also means bloat and all that jazz.

MS is perhaps king of backward compatibility--I have successfully run GWBasic...

The problem with security is it must be *perfect*, against every possible attack every single time. The attacker only have to be lucky *once*.

Given this, no matter how...

Markus (1/4/2017)

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roger.plowman (1/4/2017)

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It all comes back to "I am who I say I am". How can you prove that with any reliability over distance?

Short answer, you can't. It's a physically...

It all comes back to "I am who I say I am". How can you prove that with any reliability over distance?

Short answer, you can't. It's a physically impossible problem...

Sam Bishop (12/27/2016)

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Funny, the original article has a link to Wikipedia which gives a definition of "Syntactic Sugar" and still gets it wrong.

Syntactic sugar is for the benefit of the...

Syntactic sugar actually refers to the tokens added to make the *compiler's* job easier, like the ; in C to end lines. I think the term you're looking for is...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/30/2016)

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roger.plowman (11/30/2016)

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Why does everyone always squawk about certification bodies (guilds, unions, etc.).

These, in my opinion, are worthless. Bureaucracy at its finest. Ethics classes only teach...

Why does everyone always squawk about certification bodies (guilds, unions, etc.).

These, in my opinion, are worthless. Bureaucracy at its finest. Ethics classes only teach you what someone *else* decides is...

This is a VERY tricky subject.

First, because ethics are subjective. They are *concepts* and as our deplorably litigious society proves, ethics are fluid and mean exactly what the sneakiest...

Having been a developer for 30 years now I hate to rain of Steve's parade, but perhaps I have a different view of what he means by coding than he...