I've worked on a number of financial and high volume systems. Many of those systems have test accounts in them, precisely to allow system-to-system tests.

However, for most tests. it's a...

Almost never is test/dev secured as well as production. This is a place where many data breaches have occurred.

While this isn't as much of an issue for you, Rod, in...

I'm not sure what we do now. I know that a report now hides the post as SPAM immediately, not needing 3, so I asked what the status of things...

No one in particular, just the discussion in general.

I would prefer most people teach/mentor, rather than just provide code. As much as I like seeing solutions when I have a...

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Trying to hide "business logic" is pretty much a waste of...

I don't quite know how I feel about this person, though I haven't looked through many posts. I do see them thanking people, which is (sadly) all too rare.

I may...

Phil is using the technique from this article: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/the-numbers-or-tally-table-what-it-is-and-how-it-replaces-a-loop-1

sa, or any sysadmin, can get to anything on the instance, except for encrypted data to which the key is not stored in SQL Server.

We have a spam engine, but it takes some reports to start recognizing these. Blocking keywords isn't as easy or simple as you think.

Spam comes in waves, we deal with...

It appears those are deleted, but I'll file a bug to remove tags from SPAM posts.

Thanks to AirTags and similar tracking technology, thieves have to be more careful about swiping stuff left lying around in the open. I've thought about taking an old phone...

Excel is simple (or Sheets, etc.)

Power BI is free-ish. Are you looking for yourself or others? Often something I use might be simple and easy, but once I start to...

The requirements aren't clear. You should explain with an example of how you decide a row with xx as data is included and a row with yyy is not.

Remember that...

Perhaps a verbiage issue. Scale, to me, is concurrent...

We haven't had scale issues. You're conflating changes with bugs or errors.

And, yes, I do push the staff to write better code and be accountable for their mistakes.