I like that SSMS is a free download as it gets rid of excuses that a lot of developers who are using tools like WinSQL which to me is not...

How about work/life/learning balance?..

I agree with the earlier post which said that idle retirement is a good way to kill off people. You should always keep learning to keep...

One thing I would like to point out is that if your queries are poorly written, there comes a time when the law of diminishing returns or Amdahl's law start...

I love my coffee in the morning. My wife calls me an addict and my co-workers know to not ask me any technical questions before my second cup. ...

I use PowerShell a lot and it has been a huge time saver. I manage a lot of servers and checking remote servers used to involve opening an RDP...

He did. I had to refactor the code whenever he needed help.

Thank God for Red Gate tools.

I think the biggest issue I see is the perception of inexpensive hardware drives poor programming practices. This creates systems that can't scale without massive investments in hardware. ...

I think the marketing hype of NoSQL has made a lot of managers and educators start to think that the RDBMS is dead. They said the same thing about...

I also agree with GPO. I think a lot of applications start this way, even really large commercially sold packages. I am dealing with a string of "data...

That raises a good point.

I'll have to admit that I am also clueless on the code-first thing. It just sounds really scary to a DBA when these...

Oh I still see tons of developers who love to argue that that is a best practice to make your primary keys all uniqueidentifier data types.

It's the same...