The examples I gave were for physical things, but I would agree, investing in people is key. I saw somewhere recently a person said a manager is responsible for improving...

Many, many customers do agree. They are thrilled that TFS/ADO Server gets updated quarterly. When your base is large, there will never be complete agreement, but lots of customers like...

DevOps isn't related to cadance or QA/testing. It is related to learning to become better. Plenty of companies conflated the two and drove speed over quality (many still do). This...

I agree with that. I've worked with minor colds and other illnesses that would have kept me out of an office, but laying in bed with a laptop isn't that...

Proper source control needed surely? Wouldn't the process on receiving details of the original bug be to create a new branch in the version control system from the last...

I think you're on the right track. Dynamic ports aren't good for security, so I'd set specific ones, leave the browser off, and then use known ports, or use port...

Burnout can certainly creep up, and I try to really get away from the computer on the weekends. Working this am because I took off a little early yesterday to...

I'll keep adding to this over time. I know there are features that are unintuitive.

Feel free to post questions for what you want to know how to do. I need...

If you assume you only have 5 instances max on a machine, then I think assigning ports to those instances and allowning that range through makes senes. I though 50000+...

database names can be the same. These are only namespaced inside the instance.

The browser running on UDP 1434 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/configuration-manager/sql-server-browser-service?view=sql-server-ver15) is what the source instance would connect to on the target instance and get the port.

Outbound traffic usually isn't too much of...

We are struggling to find places to go to camp. A lot of the places are still closed, but we're hoping some will start to open in June. Did book...

But when working from home, it doesn't seem right to take a sick day, even if you're sick. With so much uncertainty still ahead of us, I'd rather...

The marketing and SEO do matter. Engagement is a part of what is needed and mobile has been a constant request over the years. This also affects search results from...

there are some dbccs for checking data type changes. I forget which one, but it addresses a change after 2000. A little busy now, but I'll try to look later.

Otherwise,...