Being one of the "old dogs" in the office, I'm not only respected for my knowledge of the arcane past, but the ability to figure out tools and methods to...

I've written some less than optimal code, in fact I have some going into production soon because I was told it was good enough and I was needed elsewhere. (I've been...

We go to an Asian buffet with friends on Christmas Day since most of our families are elsewhere.

Speaking of games, the current best game of the season in my household is a 9 year old driving game that we got for $5 last year. Had we got...

For almost all my business, side and hobby projects a RDMS has sufficed. There's only a few outliers that involve insanely large amounts of real time data that something else is required.

I like the courses, it's just hard to find time to watch consistently.

Thinking you can save the world with data is a young man's fallacy. Data won't save the world because people are fundamentally irrational. And the real problems are complex with multiple...

Of all the semi-useful/useless Microsoft software I've encountered I don't know if the GUI/user experience in SSIS or Visio is worse...

I think the educational system in the US is broken on so many levels. I do think we have the know-how and technology to fix it, but the battle is...

I need a new home office and furniture, but that will have to wait. As for computer hardware, I can spec it out to meet any budget from pauper to...

I think that companies that are on Linux don't necessarily want to pay the SQL Server license costs. Windows server licenses are cheap compared to those of SQL Server.   (Unless...

We don't have leadership either government or corporate that is willing to make the mandates and penalties work to enforce security. With technology we are still in a "Wild West"...