The terms "off hours" or "after hours" is subjective, and it depends on your job description. If you are a DBA or network administrator and the system crashes at 11pm,...

I too had never heard of exercism.org before. They have a lot of languages there, even something called "D", which is apparently an evolved offshoot of C. They...

I too had never heard of exercism.org before. They have a lot of languages there, even something called "D", which is apparently an evolved offshoot of C. They have PL/SQL...

I can see how a more focused AI with built in safeguards would be better suited than ChatGPT for applications like self driving cars or customer service.

FYI: I think this...

The discounted pricing model for Azure "Spot" VMs is an interesting option, if you're wanting to run a development environment for the SQL Server \ SSIS \ SSAS \ SSRS...

Even better than just a Git repository, our team uses Atlassian. First, we create an internal Confluence blog post that documents how to use the script and it's implementation (similar...

Most phishing emails I receive fall into a handful of categories like:

• "Congratulations! You have won (this or that)" that purport to be from retailers like Costco
• Requests from Netflix...

This looks like maybe, but also complicated to figure out.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/system-stored-procedures/catalog-grant-permission-ssisdb-database?view=sql-server-ver16

db_ssisadmin, db_ssisltduser, and db_ssisoperator roles only exist in MSDB and apply to the legacy SSIS deployment model.

In SSISDB, the options are: ssis_admin and ssis_logreader, so it seems the solution is...

When IT departments start tightening their belt - the guy whose primary job is to pick arguments over tabs and naming conventions, the guy whose brightest idea is to port...

Kind of related, but some data warehousing platforms like Snowflake support full result-set caching.

https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/Understanding-Result-Caching

I can see this feature as applicable to OLTP databases like SQL Server as well. For...

I have nightmares about losing a thumb drive. If you're going to do this, then use BitLocker or an encrypted .zip file.

If you have an existing on-prem server and infrastructure, staff with development and system admin skills, and you don't have a need to easily scale up / down your CPU...

Nobody even mentions the state of the art AI, technical skill, and creativity the organizers put into these deep fake presenters.

Something else that's been around for a very long time - to the point of being standard practice - are organizations (especially IT) that use stock photos of happy young...