This is a semi-helpful, awkward, bland, "pre-school" view of government data. As someone who digs through various government data for a living, a hobby and as a voter, it's better to...

I've got 47 different programming languages, (including C# and F#), plus several different database systems (PostGres, SQLite, MySQL...) running on my main home Linux box, I might as well install SQL...

My management usually ignores me and they come to regret it later when they have a bigger mess to resolve.  :crying:

We are required to block this "data" at the firewall due to the nature of our business. "nuff said."

As for Microsoft, they currently seem to be more trustworthy...

These are the times I feel I should have become a forest ranger...

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NoSQL, DevOps, "The Cloud", "Internet of Things"...

With all the "hype", I'm sure there's tidbits of goodness in all of these things, but there's also issues to be considered....

I'm excited when SP2 of a product is released, since most of the obvious bugs are hopefully dealt with and other users have documented their experiences with the product. 

DevOps is the new buzzword to replace Agile... 😛

It means that I get to add 2 more jobs to the 3.4 I already do...  

There's no war between CLI and GUI proponents, there's just clickbait and emotional responses spewed on the InterTubes.

It's not an absolute either/or absolutism, experienced computer pros recognize the...

Convince my CEO and CFO that we should spend the money on the hardware and licenses to treat servers like cattle... :Whistling:

How would one replace SSMS with a native Linux or cross platform app? Would SMO + C# even work on Linux?

Various Basics, VBA, VBScript
Various Forth
Fortran
FoxPro
ColdFusion
MUMPS
Numerous Assembly
Different sorts of OS CLI, JCL, DCL, Batch, BASH, TCL, AWK, etc..
Insane of application scripting languages and macros, ASPECT,...