When I've done interviews in the past for an intermediate or above level position, I've asked mostly 'why', 'how', 'give an example of', and 'tell me about' type questions.

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A lot of the rioters appeared to have smart phones - which they were using to video record their escapade. The FBI could subpoena location data from Google, Apple, and...

Madame Pelosi's laptop was stolen. Are PCs or devices used by members of Congress have some form of (FTE) full disk encryption enabled? For government issued devices, someone in the...

My understanding of the SolarWinds hack is that the password to the FTP site used for software releases (SolarWinds123) was inadvertently leaked on the web, because they re-used the same...

Continuing down the PII = Technical Debt side track, I'm thinking that in an ideal scenario, an OLTP databases, data warehouse, data lake, etc. should not contain PII - only...

Another form of technical debt is needless personal identifying information (PII) that accumulates in our databases and file systems. I've sometimes analogized it to toxic waste, because of the way...

California's CCPA laws are already in effect for "show me my data" and "delete my data" requests, but there are other US states planning to rollout in near future as...

What's essential is knowing what data access patterns are being used by each application and then partitioning, structuring, and indexing the data optimally. For ad-hoc aggregate reporting on millions or...

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by  Eric M Russell.

Having that ADS shortcut available on the Windows Start menu will certainly lead to an increase in adoption, so maybe that's the idea of bundling it with the SSMS install....

At least in the realm of IT, if you find a task hard or tedious to do, then there is probably a better way of doing it.

The thing is, change doesn't happen equally or universally. For example, here in the US, a significant percentage of the population still use dial-up and DSL, not because they are...

I can see why keeping SSMS and ADS separate, both in functionality and as an installation, would make sense at this point, because it's on-prem versus Azure.

However, I have been...

I'm guess...

There should be a way to block this traffic using a firewall rule. I doubt if SQL Server would stop working just because it can't post or ping Microsoft support...

Actually, much (if not most) of the posts in internet discussion forums or social media by actual humans is not really conversational. Folks are triggered by a keyword in someone...