I'm using 2014, no business or technical need for anything newer.  Even if we upgraded quickly that would mean another version among the several different versions to test and support....

If you spend some time studying and working in various other operating systems and file systems, this is not a trivial problem. There are solutions, but they would require retooling...

The one thing that holds SQL Server back is the cost of licensing. The one thing that holds Postgres back is the lack of community and documentation, it's not at...

I am glad that date/time work gets some attention in the standards, but since I can never remember the actual syntax and values, I don't really care. I'll depend...

Almost all people don't understand the potential harm that the IoT or the virtual/connected world can have on their life. If they did, we wouldn't have the Wild West that...

It's not the coders, it's the C-level folks and investors that don't want to pay for quality code, training or processes.

This weekend I was tinkering around with some microcontrollers dealing with 32 KB of memory. Today I'm staring at databases with TB of files...

You could use a local database to keep track of your cloud database objects. :hehe:
The problem then becomes; What to name the local database???  😛

PowerShell is useful in many, but darn, it's slow for munging/examining large amounts of raw data. We end up using it in troubleshooting situations on client's Windows servers where there are no other...

Biggest software conference I've been to was the SQL Rally when it was in Dallas. Probably said hi to Steve then.

Have fun!

Already have some "IoT" at the house in a limited way with a "smart" power meter and a security/safety system.  Don't need my appliances to be hackable as well.

Most of the open data sets I deal with aren't in the billions of records, but still require a skilled eye to scrub and put into a useful format for mere...