Thanks and I tend to agree on Choose. It seems like a "magic hard coding" way of putting in values, which worries me. I prefer things to be more flexible...

Thanks and you are correct. Altered one of the answers and awarded back points

Congrats Rodders

I think it's always a balance. I'm happy to do glue work, but I also want others to pitch in as well.

And if you are growing your career, you have...

With Grant, you need a trace (xEvents) or something to look at the workload. Or is this 100% without a workload?

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Maybe employers should require IT hires and executives to sign NDAs specific to protected data. There may be other remedies already in place, but a NDA would help establish...

I don't agree that low wages are more of temptation to a thief.  The best way to refute this argument is to  point out that most white collar crimes...

I agree with Frederico, it's likely people posting from ChaGPT et al on here, but as I've been experimenting with LLMs and Python, I could whip up a python script...

For us, the "right" choice has remained colocation for 20 years.  We get a secure, redundantly provisioned data center - sharing the cost of duplicate power, air conditioning, and...

Referring to private data centers, you wrote:

The cost of running them privately will exceed that of what vendors will charge.

I think that's true if:

• You're comparing apples to apples...

I think people leapt into the cloud making two big mistakes

1. Not having any governance in place
2. Not having devoted time to reading and/or understanding the Well Architected Framework. ...

Congrats to James!!!

At least I beat Ray with a 6th place finish

I have a plan. I'm learning Spanish. I'm retiring in 18 months and plan to spend a year in Europe with a base in Spain. I'm training to live...