I'm surprised as well. I'd have guessed lots of people would say "no, haven't tried" or "it's hard to separate".

I think of all the things apps read that rarely change,...

The flip side of trying to reorganize to get better, or avoid losing steam as David noted above, is to do it regularly and often. MS has done this, and...

It all starts with management.

It's interesting to talk with people using PostgreSQL (mostly) and MySQL (a few). Also CosmosDB and others.

Many of them find SQL Server to work better and they enjoy it. My...

Well that was one heck of a three days...

First Summit Seattle under my belt and I'm both burned out and still geeked.  I wasn't able to attend even 1/2...

Awarded back points and changed the 4th answer. That isn't a good choice.

The issues Johan Bijnens brought up are #2 on my list of concerns about tech.  It's interesting to read Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago and think about whether our current state...

Hate to tell you this, but Big Brother has been watching almost since the first smart phone.

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Using FSD as the example, I don't think we'll ever have the magical...

Lost this weekend with a lack of performance from a few players. Congrats to James for stopping my streak.

What I fear the most is TurboTax. The instructions on TurboTax is sometime ambivalent. It normally takes me a month to finish doing my income taxes, because I have...

I had a bad experience with an app for theatre tickets.

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My other fear is that a mobile is attractive to thieves.  I'm unlikely to have a paper ticket stolen...

I suspect a lot of AI for analytics especially for security and BI on Azure.

I do not expect much of it to reach on-premises SQL Server anytime soon as...

I am very skeptical on the ROI of a degree. Not the value, but the return based on costs.

Years ago, one could get a nice degree for not too much...

I am very skeptical on the ROI of a degree. Not the value, but the return based on costs.

Years ago, one could get a nice degree for not too much...

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A world changing thing needs 3 types of people to create it

• The inventor e.g. Steve Wozniak or Phil Katz
• The person who can see how the invention could...