I think the ubiquitous advice of rebooting is has mostly to do with the economics of customer support. Attempting to provide a remote customer with step by step instructions on...

As engineers, we shouldn't view the world in the context of good and evil. Everything (and everyone) is a collection of attributes, each of which are good or bad for...

I'm not an advocate of cryptocurrency or smart contract applications - but the underlying technology of publicly distributed ledgers and blockchains can be leveraged to protect digital records from disaster,...

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There may be more PC components, suppliers, and configuration choices today, so the decision tree for building a PC is much more complicated. But then again back in the early...

I encourage everyone to create a free Snowflake trial account. It includes a shared copy of the TPC-DS sample database that is 100 TB in size with 100 million records...

It depends. Some users browse the cube directly as a decision support tool, so they can quickly slice and dice measurements across dimensions, so the cube itself is the product....

"With the focus on privacy in the media, and the mishandling of data regularly by companies, I wouldn't be surprised if there are going to be large numbers of requests...

Rubrik, the backup solution we use, allows us to live mount a SQL Server database from backup, which is great for QA testing. Redgate has something similar.

But the good thing...

Heh... ok... here's another thought.  If you don't think you own the data (not like the guy in the story Steve related), let something happen to it and find...

There are NoSQL databases out there that specialize in doing stuff like: serving high volume JSON document reads (CosmosDB / MongoDB), data warehousing (Snowflake, Azure Synapse), graph querying, website caching...

A certification doesn't imply a high level of expertise - only a certain baseline of competence as it applies to a specific area. For example, a "certified BMW mechanic" is...

Here is a good one. Not only does it reveal a lot of the candidate's experience and problem solving skills, but it can lead to an even more revealing back...

Whether it feels like a failed experiment or a personal failure has a lot to do with who else observed it. I think it's the nature of IT folks to...

Next April 1, tell us how to e-file our taxes from a stored procedure.

Not only is provisioning databases in Azure quick and simple, but billing and scaling in terms of DTU and RU/s is such a game changer that organization who are still...