Tend to agree, David. Pools of making decisions without knowing how to best use/support/code/etc. across technologies.

I see too many people bringing in a NoSQL platform, or changing the RDBMS because...

Indeed, though that wasn't ransomware. It was poor security on a test account

Do you think it would help to put something like, "Constantly looks to improve our processes and make life better for our staff" as a requirement in the job...

"When I interview people, I want to know a few things. One is can I get along with them, as well as the rest of the team. This isn't...

I too had never heard of exercism.org before. They have a lot of languages there, even something called "D", which is apparently an evolved offshoot of C. They have...

Apologies for the issues. The question is corrected.

That's a great ad.

I love a friend on LinkedIn whose profile says "Not looking for a job, but ridiculous salary offers considered." A nice reverse way of looking for a...

I haven't tried Leetcode. I have done exercism with C# and python. I find it an interesting way to rethink how I code.

IDC and Gartner talk about average costs, but those are across large orgs. They do try to help with some ideas:

• https://www.gartner.com/en/doc/764671-measure-the-real-cost-of-cybersecurity-protection
• https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US51435723
• https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US50456623

The clone is read-only to start, so you cannot write to it. However, if you change to read/write, you can. This is a normal database, not something like a database...

Git is Git. There is no different from ADS in using GitHub vs. Azure Data Studio. No need for separate git information as a provider. You authenticate to one and...

I've corrected the article. A few hidden HTML tags were causing issues when rendering with the public style sheet.

Hey Steve, this thread has become really pertinent this week. I work for a large state government department in my state. One of my coworkers has supported two large...

I would say that the people at DirecTv should have some better code review.  From what I read yesterday they were blaming an outage in my area on some...

I know when I've been on the MS campus, I can't connect if my device isn't patched. I think that's a good "in-depth" strategy for sure.