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...

Thanks, all. This was my New Years Day

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What I do know is that I want AI to be a welcome helper, not an intrusive, micromanaging irritant.  I want it to be a leg up rather than...

Yeah, supposedly a project plan to do some upgrades was in place, but I haven't heard anything either. Of course, I've been gone since the 20th, so hopefully there will...

No idea. Details are few and far between, but I'd think they'd rev the .NET support

Someone here imported a large text file using ADF, and all the fields ended up as nvarchar(max). I was livid. I don't think the person who did this even...

I find that a whole lot of people have some really serious problems with smaller data sets.  I been told probably hundreds of times that "performance doesn't matter because...

Couple of things come to mind about this:

I don't worry as much about big or small as I do about good or bad.

Size doesn't matter as long as we...

Thanks,  I don't use functions that much, so it caught me which is why I wrote this.

The question says AdventureWorks. This is a public schema.

I think you likely have a good team. I think most of Redgate grinds. However, in many other places I've worked, relatively few people grind away at their careers.

It's the well known AdventureWorks database. All tables have PKs in there.

Nah, that's just poor communication. Most people suffer from this, including me, which is why I think AI use is ultimately going to be limited.