Thank you, Brian, great feedback as well! I don't believe I've done a good job of identifying like minded people on an idea.

I like your explanation, Grant. And excellent support for encouraging engagement in local user groups, doing presentations, etc. Fortunately, I do both (last presentation was last month to my local...

Do companies have a lack of talent?  Or do they have a lack of training, a lack of motivational ability to encourage personal growth, and a lack of belief...

Love this article, Steve. There's a lot here I can learn from. I've not been in many incident reviews (I like that term) or what I've heard referred to as...

Steve, I've gotta admit, I didn't see the poopocalypse coming.

Once early in my career helping a manager turned out to be a very bad thing to do.

This particular group manager (not my group) had a personal hygiene issue...

Review time is important, so I take it seriously. But depending upon your situation its less important, than for others. I work in state government. As such I have no...

In my team we put small tasks on a Trello Kanban board. This gives visibility of all those things that consume time but aren't a fit for a JIRA...

WOW, Steve, thank you for sharing that article on microservices and event driven design! I took a quick look at the article and saw that it's long. I'm about to...

We had a wonderful time at the zoo, Steve. Then went to Genghis Grill afterwards. (Two other places we tried to go to were closed for the Labor Day holiday.)...

Thank you, Steve, for this excellent editorial. I'm keenly aware of the passage of time as I, too, get older. And thank you for sharing the video of Scott Hanselman...

Very good article, Steve. Where I currently work, I've seen a couple dozen databases written for home grown applications with a purpose in mind. And unfortunately, we never really consult...

@Ant-Green, I really appreciate your providing that screen snapshot! I had thought what I needed to do was enable TCP/IP in the SQL Native Client 11.0 Configuration (for both 64...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by  Doctor Who 2.

Hi @Ant-Green,

Follow-up

I found this link on Tom's Hardware, which showed me a separate way of opening port 1433. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-open-firewall-ports-in-windows-10,36451.html

So, I've created a new rule in Windows Defender, to all...

Yes, TCP/IP is an enabled protocol on the SQL Server machine.

It's probably in the Windows 10 firewall & network protection that I'm being tripped up. I've opened the Private network....

• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by  Doctor Who 2. Reason: Corrected spelling