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...

Isn't the insistence on degrees merely a proxy for keeping people not like us away?

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...

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...

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by sean redmond.

6 Jobs AI will never do

1. CEO
2. CFO
3. CTO
4. CIO
5. Senator
6. Public Representative

Those who make decisions about the implementation of AI don't have to worry about losing their jobs to...

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...

I miss the SQL Server MCP exams. They were good at...

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...

I have three.

1. This first is a quote, which I think is from Oscar Wilde: Know something about everything and everything about something;
2. The second is from an ad I...

Why plan on only jumping all the way to 2022? It seems that 2019 is pretty stable now and they may be done implementing breaking updates - there have...

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by sean redmond.

@sean-redmond, thanks for the reply. I couldn't agree more. Asking is usually the best path forward. It builds relationship and helps others see where the shortcomings in knowledge sharing...

Agreed but, let me ask... do you have any tables where they have a separate DATE and TIME column and it sometimes needs to be recombined into a DATETIME2...

Thank you everyone for your feedback.

As I am sure you are aware, extensive testing, including stress testing, is key to any migration. Personally I would be loathed to put...

'A common people, divided by a common language...' (to paraphrase W. Churchill, quite possibly quoting someone else)

I noticed this in Japan when I was there on the JET Programme. I...

The answer lies in a matter of...