It is the over-compartmentalisation that does it. I was a year into a job as a DBA and I had gotten a grip on what was to be done. I...

Hi Steve,

I have 2 mottos (motti?): 'Festina lente' (make haste slowly — otherwise you make sloppy mistakes and forget things) and 'always be learning'.

For the latter, there is always something...

That reminds me of a Calvin & Hobbes' cartoon. If I remember correctly, Calvin asks his father how the load limits on bridges are determined and Calvin's father replies that...

A part of this increase in data-size is our sloppiness in database design. We throw in GUIDs everywhere partly because it is in fashion, partly because it makes development easier...

We are obliged to note our time-usage. The development, monitoring and maintenance of the various security systems used for DB-access requires time and resources. That is not to say that...

The qualities that I look for in interviewees are willingness to learn, ease with logical thought and thoroughness. Being able to the job quickly is good, too, but, if given...

Where is this company that has programmers who earn more than their managers?

This story makes it sound as if this was a bad thing!

I have long thought that the highly-skilled...

My problem with early adoption is that the first version is not at all complete and that usually need to wait a cyle or two until you get all of...

Hi George,

Since it is theoretically possible to run everything in SQL Server with TSQL scripts and TSQL scripts can be scheduled to run with sqlcmd, it is theoretically possible to...

Has anyone tried serious licence-saving activities like transferring those DBs that can be transferred to SQL Server Express Edition instances and re-writing SQL Server Agent jobs for the windows Scheduler?...

Yes sir, credit to you, Thunderball it is. I mis-remembered the name.

I like the early James Bond movies, although I haven't seen this one for quite a while.

Hi Howard,

Fair enough. I stand corrected.

Thanks for the clarification,

Sean.

I don't think that the moon-landings were faked.

My understanding of modern commercial aircraft is that they are so complex, that simple training with light aircraft is by no means enough...

This argument suggests that the management structure of VW was completely incompetent rather than being simply greedy, immoral bastards, who were solely concentrating on profit (and bonus) maximisation. Simply on...

Until the regulatory aspect of Azure is clarified internationally — namely, which bodies governmental or otherwise — have access to the data, I will continue to treat Azure as «open»....