2025-11-30

Also, we deserve extra points, if we post our answer in ANSI standard YYYY-MM-DD format.

It seems that the process of performing a factory reset on a Tesla car is remarkably similar to an iPhone.

https://www.findmyelectric.com/blog/how-to-clear-reset-tesla-to-factory-settings/

A few months back, I bought a used 2017 model...

A few weeks ago, I purchased a handful of flood / freeze detectors for my Ring security system.

Also, it would be an interesting project to buy some solar panels and...

Also, if you want to enforce a constraint of 1 .. X rows, leverage an identity column combined with a check constraint.

For example, the following allows a max of 3...

I work for a retailer, and we have our version of a Black Friday sale, but we mostly lease / sell furniture and appliances, so it's not the same as...

I've never really been much into tech gadgets, but I would like to have something like a 50" wide-screen display with a wrap-around screen for multi-tasking - or playing Red...

I think most seasoned DBAs, those of us who have been in the industry for more than a decade, can tolerate variations in naming conventions, even multiple conventions being used...

This seems like a discussion from just the other day - but it was actually six years ago!

Here is my thinking about it:

Some tables represent entities that are "top level"...

Necessity is usually the mother of IT consulting.

There is nothing "heroic" about establishing yourself as a lynchpin, keeping your co-workers in the dark about how things work, and then bailing one day for a better job.

Of course,...

Fortunately for the DBA, because SQL is a high level declarative language, releasing modifications to a stored procedure (so long as it  also doesn't involve changes to shared objects like...

It would be nice to have the humble PRINT statement support %s and %i arguments similar to RAISERROR and also support the NOWAIT and LOG options.

Also, it would be nice...

If I'm on an airplane or Zenning out in the middle of nature without internet connectivity, then it's either a weekend or I'm on PTO, in which case I'm not...

If you're asking me, it's just Visio.

Keeping corporate data on your laptop or phone is an accident waiting to happen. Aside from the creeps who lurk around food courts waiting for you to refill your drink,...