I always felt that it's not as important to know all the answers as it is to know and understand how to find them.  It's like art.  Lots of folks...

Only thing I don't agree with it this:  "If I insist on making poor choices, I want their support, but if they can influence me to do...

William, thank you for your very nice work with the fuzzy search function.  I'm a 74-year-old retired DBA who now 'plays' nearly every day with SQL code working mainly on...

I think most of the job descriptions I ever saw utilized the shotgun approach.  And most of them were at least 'finalized' by HR folks who were clueless regarding the...

OK.  That's all great.  Now let's get on to a similar list for managers.  Number one has to be listen to your DBA's and let them get things done that...

Ed, I agree with you 100%.  We just don't know about the privacy, and minus the research to find out, I think it's better to stick with doing it on...

Echoing what I have advocated for years now is that we need to design our networks so that there is a clear demarcation, and physical/electronic isolation between internal and external systems, with...

It seem more and more I m asking why we want to do many of the things we see being done with technology, and I have concluded that 'Because we...

Well, we already have the SQL code stored inside the database so it can be deployed along with database changes to the server.  Maybe we should also make it possible...

Probably the riskiest experience I dealt with over the years was one position where I worked for a manager with a huge ego and small experience.  One day while I was...

Unfortunately, I firmly believe from what I saw during my years in IT is that 'big data' is often the result of system design that is incomplete and lacking in foresight. ...

As with any business process, implementing changes can be under-managed or over-managed.  Several years before I left a DBA position I discovered that a particular set of about a dozen self-requested...