About this line:

If you can choose Paul Randal, Denny Cherry, Andy Leonard, and Brent Ozar to present at your event, would you pick me?

I thought about this a lot last...

HAHAHA, you totally got me. I clicked the link. (sigh)

The bigger question is, "When will privacy matter more than money?"

And it never will. That ship has sailed.

Younger generations have made the conscious decisions to:

• Willingly share everything online
• Prefer...

Before I bought my 911, I was torn between a 911 or...

I still really, really miss my Audi RS6: fast, spacious, and a total sleeper. Audi finally started bringing them to the US again, but this time in the...

Awww, thanks for the kind words, sir!

You're welcome, sir!

Steve - this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it's the first part of the equation: a URL Canary:

https://urlcanary.com/

You generate one of these, embed...

Thanks Ben, glad you liked the post!

AWS RDS is self healing in the sense that they fix health problems that would take your database offline.

It is not self TUNING.

If you want it to go faster, then...

I ask what their favorite web site is, and then I give a 1-2 sentence explanation of how it uses a database.

For example, if they say Amazon, I...

Thankfully California was so much smarter with their qualifications than the EU was - it only affects companies with (a) annual gross revenues of $25 million; (b) obtains personal information...

Doing a week with Mom in the Isle of Man (I really fell in love with that place) this fall, then two weeks in Cabo with my wife this winter.

Thanks man, glad you liked the posts! Have one more coming on Monday about a corruption issue I hit. Overall, I'm really happy with the platform so far.