I pretty much refuse to engage anybody from work outside of work. Amazingly I get 'Exceeds Expectations' on all of my reviews in all categories. I work hard...

I also use this technique quite a bit. Besides being faster than the other methods I think it's easier to understand.

Great question. Did not know SQL 2016 was going to support Hadoop or Azure Blob storage. Not that I'll ever use it...

I've ran into this a long time ago, it was painful to solve. Great question.

I'm a little surprised. There are great resources for directed learning, websites like coursera.org, Pluralsight, even Khan Academy. And if you want tough and interesting projects check out...

I would think we're in for a world of much more strict change control. After the Feds lost all of their data I would think (and hope) that enforcers...

Um, you didn't say in SQL!! Good question, I knew the answer but just like doing the math in my head. 😀

I can't believe I knew this without looking it up!

I got it right but it was through ignorance. We don't use constraints much and I had never heard of is_not_trusted. Good info.

I got it right but it only applies to the enterprise/developer/eval versions of SQL 2014. CDC is not available in other versions.

If it only happens the first time you could just try to do something very small expecting it to error then continue on. Sounds like it might be a...

I think the duress attacks are going to exceedingly rare. However the honeypots are a great idea but only if you have active networking guys who can monitor and...

Ok first of all they'd have to get past Moneypenny and secondly we'll add some biometric security. Finally we'll add enhanced bunker remote security. Should stop all but...

The newest security is using USB keys to allow a user to login along with the password and physical access. It would have to be a pretty big payoff...

I imagine few people will upgrade. The licensing costs went up significantly after 2008. I know we'll only upgrade when the risk committee can't take it anymore (being...