There are few worse feelings than the moment you realize that the backup you thought you had is not any good.  Not only can you have a failure of the...

Last year I splurged for a pretty decent gaming laptop which also doubles as my vm host for my home lab. I like to experiment with electronics so I...

One of the most annoying things about the SSMS shell is the kludgy way you have to go about having multiple queries in the same query tab. You either...

On the whole with SQL Server I've found that most behaviour of this ilk comes down to Microsoft, to their credit, handing us a DB engine and expecting us to...

I too have come to SQL Server from Oracle and although I don't have near the experience with it that most of you do, I absolutely consider this a bug...

We use express in production as a local database for applications that need to continue to run even if the network or main database server instance is down. The...

My 10 year old daughter has recently roped me into the minecraft world. She watches lots of youtube videos of people playing the game and that introduced the whole...

In my case, we are switching from Oracle to Sql Server because the company wants to standardize. I read often about how difficult it is to do anything in...

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. I think we all have been thrown by the last error we see when the actual problem turns out to be...

Chris,

Thanks for the reply. I have also thought of going with the stored procedure route. I am both the DBA and one of the developers, so I guess...

Thank you for the reply. I had thought about using the application role like you suggested and will probably go that route. I will also consider adding a...

Very good article Louis. I guess it goes with being a DBA, but we do tend toward the conservative when it comes to the data. If we know...

Not to sound too much like a "me too" but, I also applaud Sarah's article and all of the people who take the time to answer the questions, and help...

I have spent a bunch of time the last few years building controller boards from kits to control my christmas lights. I then created control sequences synchronized to music...

For us, we have security issue a temporary card when you forget yours, If you have lost it they will deactivate the old one and print and issue a new...