At a previous consulting company that I left about 2 decades back I used to be in the hiring pipeline. I was the techical manager on a project and...

I come not to raise the flag of social ineptitude but to bury it. (With apologies to the bard for my blatant steal.) On that scale I would...

Nice theory. But out in the real world managers are often rewarded for being politically well-connected. Doesn't matter how flimsy the excuse given why it's someone else's fault...

Well I will add my 2 cents after over 30 years in the IT business. Including twice owning my own consulting business. And my pet peeve is one...

I have yet to find any "one true solution" and there is no substitute for good judgement. Unfortunately good judgement comes from experience. And the experiences we learn...

I'm mostly a DBA with some SA duties and I've been assured by our network people that having the two SIDs be the same on both domains is something that...

Brian,

Thanks for asking. To Clarify the Event Id(s) given above where from the OS Security log. The Error Message numbers that we get in the SQL log at...

I notice everyone always cites greed as the reason that manufacturers come out with new version s and stop supporting old versions. But at that same time we can't...

Rune,

I've got some similar situations in a database that I'm working with and found that the alternative seems to be just as bad. We've created functions to get and...

I'm totally in agreement with Hugo on this one. But I did flag it for multiple identifiers, while lots of tables have multiple Unique Keys (Boyce-Codd normal form anyone?)...

There is no "one size fits all" answer to this question.

There are places I've worked where turning that password over to my manager would be an act of treason. ...