I think someone thought this was a good idea and lots of people adopted it,...

Bittersweet. Glad the Broncos won, sad Mahomes didn't put up numbers.

That's a you thing. There are lots of others that don't have that luxury.

However, plenty of people can work, and have code, without having protected data on a laptop. That...

My age is getting up there, but this was something I learned in my 30s. Most companies don't want to fire you, and they don't want to replace you. They...

If someone asks me to do something and it's not a demand, I usually say no first. Or, I do what Brent suggests and may try to decide where this...

Capture some stuff on your side, esp. backups. I know Bob would want to repro if he can.

And if you want to write a rant on how this went and...

I think virtualized desktops are the path forward. Yes, is you lose internet connectivity, then a device used as a RDP client is useless, but that's basically how...

Keeping corporate data on your laptop or phone is an accident waiting to happen. Aside from the creeps who lurk around food courts waiting for you to refill your...

Be interested to see what you diagnose. Did you upgrade in place? Index rebuilds or stats updates?

For whatever reason, it seems upgrades mess up perf when the data/indexes/stats should be...

I would disagree this is better security, security measures should be designed to prevent attackers not annoy the users.  If they become to obnoxious which a 2 minute lockout...

2 minutes is too few in my opinion - it happens regularly that I do something else than typing / moving the mouse (even seeing a training video could...

One of the presenters at SQLSaturday Boston had a similar 2-minute auto-lock on his corporate laptop. It was amusing to see as it kept popping out of PowerPoint every...

Steve, please excuse me for being obtuse, but what did you mean by, "...  one thing I'd recommend is make a REPO to keep your code review checklists"?...

It should be ignored. This is because even if expired, in a DR situation, you need to be able to use old certs.

Ola's scripts will give you files. You can use PoSh to to restores in parallel with Start-Process or something similar, but you'd need a way to parse and script each...