About midway through my career I took a position as manager for a new start-up IT organization in an old well-established family wholesale distribution company with about 25 mobile sales...

This brings back memories of about my third job as a developer at a company where we leased payroll/personnel software at the source-code level, and then made modifications for our...

Banned temp tables?  This is a first for me to hear about problems with them in tempdb.  I also started with SQL Server in v4.5, and used temp tables of...

In 1974 I began my fourth position in IT as manager of a brand new installation at a company that was entirely new to IT.  We started out operating 24...

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OK, I hear you.  I guess I just always assume that Relational DBMS systems are best suited for SQL.  I'm definitely getting obsolete.  In my days, it was the best...

Agreed. Elasticity rather than cost is very often the clincher when it comes to cloud. But whether cloud or on-prem it seems to me that most of the interesting...

There's definitely truth in the idea that a wave of tools aimed at generalist users (e.g. Notebooks like Jupyter and Zeppelin; platforms like DataIku) are continuing to broaden the...

Rudy, I guess I'm an old-timer, but my take is that we should not add lots of 'bells and whistles', but keep SQL pure and effective at what it is...

A solution to everything is a solution to nothing.  I'm also an 'old grizzled DBA', besides being a front-end code developer for years, and I saw way too much of...

"SQL (originally SEQUEL) was envisioned as a fourth-generation declarative language that would require minimal training and that anyone could use to get information from databases. "

And, as usual, therein lies...

I guess sometimes it comes down to whom it is more important to keep up to date, your employer or yourself.

Steve and all,

By coincidence you mention enjoying Colorado today.  I too have loved the mountains since my first visit in the early 60's.  Today, at 1:30  PM my wife and...

Unfortunately, "good enough" is often good enough, even if it does result in a bit of downtime.

This attitude was always the most disappointing aspect of my years in IT.  It...

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Jeff, thank you for sharing your experience and memories with us.  I believe you and I have lots in common.  I think one gift you and I share is that...

Louis, I guess maybe I'm not the one to say that I have a 'gift', but I definitely had a desire and the motivation.  Of course, I started my career...