My kids, ages 9 and 7, had the opportunity to attend Camp KSC (Kennedy Space Center) about six weeks ago. They had an absolute blast and learned so much...

I work in a secure vault and there isn't anything wireless anywhere close to us - no mice, keyboards, Bluetooth, etc. We're not even allowed to bring cell phones...

Almost 100% of the development work I do is on classified systems, so work from home is not an option. One nice benefit of my situation though is that...

I've definitely build many databases from scratch. My main project - a .NET client/server application written using WinForms with a SQL Server database - has a total of 10...

Back at my first assignment as a communications officer with the US Air Force, I was a software developer for Air Mobility Command - the part of the USAF that...

Back in 2002 I separated from the military, with my last day as the flight commander of our squadron's software development flight (rank of captain) on a Friday and came...

I used to be more of a "generalist", working on both web and desktop client/server applications (as well as being a SQL developer and pseudo-DBA). However, over time I...

I was in a position where I had written a few small single purpose applications that a bunch of folks used. They were somewhat related, so we ended up...

Cool. We visited KSC this past summer and only budgeted a single day, which was probably a mistake. We saw almost everything but definitely had to rush through...

We use schemas to group tables by functional area within a single database. For example, our application uses about 10 separate databases, each for a different "pot" of data....

I was coming to donate but see the goal is already met! Congrats on the great effort.

My family have been Disney passholders for five-plus years and we have been...

Back in the day when our software process was more "waterfall" we did "formal" ER diagrams. Not so much anymore. We use the diagrams in SSMS to visualize...

I'm lucky too in that I get to wear jeans, a polo shirt, and tennis shoes to work everyday. We're contractors for a US Air Force communications unit and...

We actually have a dedicated auditing team. Audits are pulled for every system on a routine basis and the team reviews them, independent of the users and the admins....

"Or is SQLServerCentral just a service and you don't care how it works, as long as it does."

For me, it's this. As we tell our own users, I don't...