Thanks, math was hard that day

Lol, looks like someone changed the page today: https://www.red-gate.com/hub/events/redgate-summit-the-database-landscape-chicago

Wonder how long before the answer the internal Slack post from Grant or me?

So I'm hoping maybe someone (coughStevecough) might be able to provide some info for me...

I'm going to be attending the Redgate Summit in Chicago, I want to get my...

Pragmatic works tools got sold to Sentry One (now Solarwinds) : https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/databasemapper/content/sources/ssis.htm

Plugins were a problem to maintain. I wish SQL Doc got more love, unfortunately, few people use it. I find far too many people just don't create any documentation (esp...

Seniors and leaders have to support change to get change to work. Ultimately a lot of what is in DevOps is stuff I did in '99/2000 with small companies.

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Auto-renewal is one of the reasons I avoid subscriptions. With auto-renewal, the onus is on you to remember, not them to remind you. I look for once-off payments or...

There are a few scenarios where this has been helpful. I've had clients that used 101/102 for merge loggin to track down issues with replication.

There are some that people will...

What are the data types of the source and destination for this column? I'm guessing this is a numeric field on the mainframe?

Does this help? https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3459/importing-mainframe-data-including-packed-numbers-with-sql-server-integration-services/

I re-read the Phoenix Project recently and it was interesting to reflect on things. The Phoenix project was late, slow, and not working. So they started the Unicorn project to...

Great points, Eric. Your job might certainly vary with hours. For me, I don't tend to work too often outside core hours (M-F, 8-5), but I do travel and I...

My experience with migrations and replatforming is that you need a clear, realistic, long-term view of what it is going to allow you to do.  The time required for...

As a data engineer currently involved in a pilot for migrating an on-premises SQL Server corporate data store to a cloud AWS data lake with S3 storage and Athena...

Hi Steve - hope you are well - long time lurker from a few years back!

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We would perform an actual transfer daily and so when it came to move...

I've certainly seen a mix of situations. There are certainly some managers who expect people to get xx work done, everyone, and expect them to work 50+ hours a week....