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...

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Talent at anything seems to follow the same flattened ogee curve. At the bottom are those who really cannot do the job they are in. At the 10% of...

It's good if you have SSO and can set access.

Internally, even if we use Sharepoint or OneDrive, it defaults to access for just me (or folder permissions). I have to...

Oooh, I like the autoclose. That's an easy one.

Here's what I'd say. If there is a business reason, meaning up to date data needed for the report, then yes. I'd give her a separate schema so the reports...

That isn't a valid date format. What you likely need to do is something like what Phil has, if that's correct. If you don't need the dates, then use that...

As in is a user connected? Or has anyone been running queries. Those are two different things.

I believe when someone connects, sp_who2 shows they are in the database, and I...

Not looking good on Wed. 

Secure by default makes more sense. I do think Snowflake could do a better job of being secure by default, though I also think some of these customers have to...

Lol, the thread is created before the editorial publishes.

I thought the Eagles would find a way to charger themselves into a loss, but they didn't and secured victory for me !

I love how professional the responses have been on this thread, offering suggestions how technical debt can be better managed and

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Some of this is sadly the marketers decisions to...

My employment record is a bit of an outlier in that I have close to 30 years in IT at the same employer.  Part of that longevity can be...

What agreat article and topic. I read and digested everything you wrote , and I have a few take aways , but more of a story. Some of it...