If you are looking, then you already know its time to move on.

Still, if you absolutely feel the need to try to negotiate with your current boss before you leave,...

hakim.ali (9/11/2015)

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I'm going to play devil's advocate, and ask this question: why bother with creating or maintaining the ER diagram? What purpose does it serve after the very initial design...

We'll Said:

"Typically when I've seen an ER diagram in a shop, it resides on a wall, printed out on multiple sheets of paper. Often there are as many handwritten additions...

I think the real point was about difficult people, and how to work with them, and how not to be one of the difficult People. There are valid reasons...

Hi Steve,

If anyone is interested, I’ve created a series of posts on how to setup, and get started with PolyBase in SQL Server 2016. If interested, I could set...

Yes, years ago when I was doing more DBA type work, I would adjust the model.

If you have an old truck that still does the job, you don't buy a new one just because it is new. Upgrades are a cost benefit decision. Microsoft needs...

I'd say that the "* if you hadn’t caught on, just a jest …" comment refers to Oracle, or perhaps not.

Either way, this article sounds like the old, mostly failed...

Ten years ago, when I was building out the team for a start-up, one of the first things we did was setup a continuous integration environment (CI). After a section...

rmechaber (4/21/2015)

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I feel like I'm on a Fark.com comment thread and should be making a snarky comment about making popcorn.

Are we really still having this conversation in 2015 about business...

RonKyle (4/20/2015)

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This is a response I've seen from designers who don't think primary and foreign keys are important. And that's just the start. And...

And to quote Adam Machanic:

"In my opinion, all external database access should occur through stored procedures."

Reference:

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/to-sp-or-not-to-sp-in-sql-server-an-argument-for-stored-procedures/

"Best Practices" is so overused. And most of the time when I hear someone use the phrase, it has been someone who has no idea about what they are...

Steve, one of your comments was interesting "...it usually requires I've got good control of production to prevent changes from being made there that aren't also made in...

So that's what the crank was for on the IBM 360 😛

Years ago, back in college, one of my assembler routines had a nasty bug.

It instructed the mainframe...