Offloading containers and container orchestration is a major part of “cloud native”.

With Azure, you specify the scaling and redundancy (and the attributes for them) with app services, databases, etc.  Microsoft...

I also prefer thick clients.  Not just because they run locally, not just because they are not slowed by tons of JavaScript (in whatever JS library or framework being used).

Thick...

Does the book cover all the forms of SQL Server on Azure (Azure SQL, SL Server on an Azure VM, Azure SQL Database)?

Does the book cover deployment to all forms...

Why not just write it as a C# library DLL, and call it from PowerShell?

Let PowerShell manage flow, let C# manage business logic.  Clean separation of concerns.

I have been an application developer since the late 1970s. I have also been doing my own DB work since the late 1980s.  I agree 100% that stored procedures (SPs)...

The greatest limitation on advancement and exploration of space is man. We had a fast-moving space program, only to have it dismantled by greedy people demanding we stop spending money...

Yes. I grabbed the wrong audit article. My bad, and my apologies.

Time to revist the coffee pot. 🙂

Actually, I found no definitions searching Google or Wikipedia for "chemical efficiency," and certainly no arguments for why it would be a useful measure in this context. ... I think...

I should stay on topic. That question is something...

You seem to recognize only two power centers--government and corporate--and you seem to believe they're diametrically opposed. In other words, you have bought into the free market dogma that...

No, my skepticism stems solely from looking at the facts, and the...