At the risk...

My employer operates in multiple countries, including New Zealand, where they have been able to reopen their offices after a period where everyone worked from home 5 days a week....

My home office is a table in the corner of the hobby room, where I sit with my back to the tempting toys. My employer has offices all round the...

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I've been working from home 1 day a week for the last few years, and the transition to full-time from home works just fine for me. I have no desire...

I have first-hand experience of a company which flirted with 'autonomy'. For a while, the developers could use pretty much anything they liked. They had fun and they were creative....

In a previous role, I used synonyms to allow us to keep a fraud detection application running 24x7 with regular updates of 3rd party supplied data (known dodgy IP addresses,...

We review code of all languages, including T-SQL. Everything is in code management and etiquette says you never merge your own pull request. There are a number of DBAs scattered...

My worst day involved an important application whose database (not a SQL Server one) was replicated to a shadow copy for DR. The replication only ran in one direction at...

I'm with you Steve. When I researched choices for my first tablet, I chose Android for the convenience of the headphone jack, the micro-SD slot and the USB port. It...

A variation on the 'passwords in files' exposure is the activity which genuinely requires use of a powerful ID but logs the connection details, including the password, in plain text.

One company I worked for had its HQ overseas. There they hired consultants, who came up with ever more restrictive 'standards' which were not subject to peer review and which...

Rogue One (already booked to go to a fundraising showing and then my team decided it would be the team outing, hope it's good enough to watch twice in one...

I guess a lot depends on whether you get more distractions at home or in the office, and also on your home commitments. My current employer has people located in...