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It's still going to be getting more and more brittle over time. And the older it gets, the harder the upgrade process becomes. There's no easy answer here, not really.
Agreed....
April 26, 2024 at 12:41 pm
What about the appliance argument? Namely, there's an application running on SQL Server 2008 & Windows Server 2003 that runs purely in-house and is not connected to the Internet. If...
April 26, 2024 at 7:50 am
The company I work for has about 120 employees but desks for only 80 or so. We moved to a hot-desk office model during the pandemic and kept it ever...
April 17, 2024 at 6:54 am
... monitor the bank moneys going out...
This is a very good point. I used to be superb at it. Now I've let this good practice lapse.
March 25, 2024 at 9:49 am
Auto-renewal is one of the reasons I avoid subscriptions. With auto-renewal, the onus is on you to remember, not them to remind you. I look for once-off payments or fixed-subscriptions...
March 25, 2024 at 8:40 am
As parodied by Mitchell & Webb with Numberwang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r6NY4Kl8Ms
February 12, 2024 at 9:27 am
I am now in my early fifties and I see the failures of taking university courses when one has no practical experience and the importance of practical experience. Not just...
October 31, 2023 at 7:07 am
Isn't the insistence on degrees merely a proxy for keeping people not like us away?
October 30, 2023 at 6:49 am
It's only worth the savings in licence costs if you have sysadmins who are au-fait with Linux, otherwise it is downright dangerous.
And then there are the other services that run...
September 22, 2023 at 6:31 am
I tried out Azure Data Studio (ADS) last week because we are trying out Github Copilot.
Copilot is scary, excellent and may yet prove to be an excellent addition to SQL...
September 18, 2023 at 10:45 am
6 Jobs AI will never do
Those who make decisions about the implementation of AI don't have to worry about losing their jobs to...
August 30, 2023 at 7:40 am
If I have several date columns in a fact table (say, date of entry & date of booking), should I create one dimension date table per date column or is...
July 19, 2023 at 8:03 am
I've tried to do all these, though not really everything about something. More a lot about a few things.
I miss the SQL Server MCP exams. They were good at...
June 27, 2023 at 10:23 am
How does multi-instance mode for Analysis Server work?
I installed a default instance & a named instance and the mode is either one or the other. I can't get the server...
June 26, 2023 at 1:09 pm
I have three.
June 26, 2023 at 4:38 am
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