This question makes me laugh. I have worked remotely for twenty years and I can live wherever I want. I have always been curious about Tampa, and I thought seriously...

All true. And yet, I have noticed that some people who have a bad attitude about their jobs seem instead to have a bad attitude about life. They leave for...

Good advice, Grant. I would be happy if entities would just practice restoring their backups.

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Hi Marcus, you are right, I do not see your post. I read it when you posted it and I really liked it. I have never seen this happen before....

Nice article. I refer to bridge tables as cross reference tables, and I like to name them <Table1><Table2>_XREF which makes their purpose as bridge tables clear. Like you, I name...

Some people think that it is risky to be replaceable, that they find job security in being irreplaceable. I understand this thinking, but I urge you to think otherwise. If...

Hi Rod, whatever teleconference service you use, it keeps metrics on meeting attendees and duration. Getting access to this data and sucking it into a warehouse is a classic data...

I study personality theory. I am pretty sure that a person's comfort with change can be described as a function of his or her personality type. I suspect anybody posting...

Sorry you are ailing Ken, please get well quickly.

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Perhaps it is a shame to have to say it this way, but when I was younger, I had many problems with gatekeeper behavior, both my own and that of...

It seems kind of obvious that relational constraints belong in the relational database.

Any Microsoft-stack business app developer who can't write decent T-SQL procs is incompetent.

I am loving these excellent comments.

I will point out that developers have a very short and predictable list of persistence requirements: load a grid, populate a form, save on click.

If...