quite time begets quiet time. I like that.

Certainly a good time for experiments, growth, and improvement.

One repo. Not separate for prod/qa/dev. You version, so you flow the code through versions/branches, not folders.

For SSRS, these are XML. For PowerBI, you can enable the dev format that's...

DORA has nothing to do with bad product design. Those are separate things. In the past, we've had engineers act as product managers, and build things they imagine users will...

You need a new job. There are always Luddites and those who want to stick with what they know and are comfortable with. It's not wrong, but it can be...

I don't either. I use a service to check submissions for articles for LLM type things. There are some signs, but sometimes it's hard.

And sometimes the LLM stuff reads pretty...

Glad it worked. I assume a Norton update?

I find more and more people changing datatypes. I think I might need to adjust my "Zero downtime" talk to include that.

I may ...

have been talking about such things for a couple years now, inertia has kept it from moving at more than a snails pace. Maybe by the time...

The longer elevated privileges are allowed the harder it becomes to remove them. Apps get written on the assumption of elevated privileges and any initiative to reduce privileges turns...

If you have Windows logins as logins, that's fine.

I'd create app role groups and add the logins in here, and grant the permissions needed for each functional role. The execute...

You should do more yoga 😉

The amazing thing is that not all robots need to be human shaped. They could have 2 (or 3) hands on an arm and fix...

It's not that someone leaving is unnoticed. It's that we forget to revoke all their access.

When someone leaves, I'm usually thinking about other things (workload I pick up or what...

Sample of what Scott said, using the Alerts section in SQL Server Agent. This is slightly fragile as you configure each instance separately and need to maintain this.

I'm ready for Yahoo to draft my players. I'll likely be around, but if previous years are any predictor, I'll forget to join

No idea if this is required for the local AzDO server, but it might be. People upload things and there is likely some FTS used to search through documents or...

In addition to what Frederico notes, what about separations/terminations? Easy to leave a security hole as the DBAs aren't notified as people move/leave.

I would always have windows auth/Kerberos if possible....