Does anyone have a good book/website to recommend learning Linux as a beginner? If so, what is it?

Oh, for the days when developers wrote in SQL!

Ours do it in Entity Framework and when a slow page needs debugging, there is 600 lines of [Entity1] to sift through...

SQL Server 2008 is out of support now (which was the reason we upgraded all of our SQL Servers) but your question is valid for SQL Server 2016.

For a few...

Hi Grant,

I have two central mottos (motti?) 'Always be learning' & 'Know something about everything and everything about something'. The problem for me is the direction: broaden the base or...

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Thanks for this, Grant. Given the push that Microsoft has made with Office 365, it seemed suddenly obvious that SQL Server was next.

My heart fell when you said that you threw the old floppies. They are a part of a younger you that got you started down this road. Secondly, there are...

There are two primary problems with software today:

1. Full-Stack Developer: everywhere full-stack developers are sought. No-one seems to think that the full-stack developers are commonly jack-of-all-trades and masters of none....

For small operations, that is, fewer than 5 people using it concurrently, Access (or FileMaker Pro) is excellent. It's relatively cheap and easy for someone with some experience to set...

Hi Thomas,

I'm setting up a test-server for my first Tabular Model to demonstrate it to the analysts at our company.

The source DB is small (2.8GB, 4 virtualised processors and 4GB...

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I am looking forward to electric cars running essentially as individual packets across a network of roads, but I am not happy that a company like Google is doing it....

Hi,
 I did the 70-461 exam last year and I found it hard (not difficult per se, just a lot to remember). It took me the better part of a year...

Isn't this the purpose of pre-defined success/failure requirements? This project shall be deemed a success when these criteria are met and a failure when these requirements are met.

 To...

From what you described, she is the person from whom I would like to receive documentation. She knows how something is to work. She may even be a superb project...