Thanks. This is a great series of articles and look forward to reading more.

Below figure 20, there is a statement that reads, "In SSIS 2008 and SSIS 2008 R2, the Lookup Transformation provides this built-in output to catch records in the Lookup table...

I too work in local government, and I can concur that the situation gets worse every year. Government seems to lag behind the private sector by a couple of...

ORM Frameworks are tools, and as with anything else, you need to use the right tool for the right job. Use the wrong tool, and you will break something....

It would be nice if it moved around. Given our current budget situation, there is no way we would be permitted to send one DBA, much less our DBA...

I try to do at least some basic documentation for my DBs. I put a description on all non-intuitive fields, and I use structured headers for all stored procedures...

In my experience, maintaining backward compatibility leads to unforseen and unnecessary problems in the code base.

Although it would be convenient, I see no "need" for this, and no real value...

Back in the days of VS 2002 and 2003, there was a larger gap between C# and VB.NET in terms of constructs and language features that were available. Quite...

I agree that the answer is both. Certain activities (e.g. monetary exchange, written communication, record keeping, etc) will be replaced more and more by bit-based systems rather than object...