I understand and empathize with all of you who have suffered through this horrible year in your lives.  But I can truthfully say that I have personally been through far...

Having worked in healthcare for the past 15 years, I fully understand and appreciate the need for data security and privacy. However, I do get frustrated at situations that...

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Thanks for 'fessin' up about the fake data use.  It's good to know I'm not alone.

This illustrates my feeling that sometimes no data is better than invalid data.  For instance,...

The database we use at the hospital that I work for is over 50 years old and is still being developed! Does this make it one of the oldest...

"There are good techniques for modifying our objects, and helping to ensure we don't break systems, but we often do need some cooperation and collaboration with application developers to implement...

I'm sad to say that in my last two positions the accuracy of data was of far less important than the presence and availability of the data.  I've commented several...

In my final DBA position before retirement, patching and bug fixes were usually provided quickly and accurately but were most often sidelined by 'project managers' too timid to allow release....

I'll throw in another thought here on the gift idea, from my perspective of being retired for over 10 years.  Maybe the best gift your company can give you is...

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We used to dread environment rebuilds.  Painful, likely to break and time consuming. It hurt.

We are not quite at the stage where it is "click of a button" but...

Eric, agree with...

My background in high school days growing up on the farm taught me that if I couldn't do something either I was too weak or wasn't trying hard enough.  I...

Hey, you guys still out there doing software are in big trouble now.  I read that 'Sleepy Joe' has the solution for all the laid-off retail workers in the economy. ...

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I never supported data in Excel or ANY application which used and stored data 'offline' that could be lost by local machine failure or lack of regular backups.  It was...