I was one who was wondering what DevOps was about. As an engineer, I pioneered simultaneous engineering (also know as concurrent engineering)  in my organisation thirty years ago. Now I...

This article would make you believe that Power BI is a cloud-based application only and the only option is to pay $000s a month to use it. There are business...

DinoRS - I have been trying to persuade my current employers to use MDS in their new development and now they have decided to move to Azure. So that has...

"2016 is the most popular. This was a major release … … ... 2017 were relatively minor releases". Yes, well, if you are a DBA you would think this but...

Wow! - I have learnt that there are names for some obvious tendencies and people have been researching some of them for decades. I have been further educated. (Now, I...

My wife just asked if there were any support services for families of those having to cope with people working from home! A sense of humour does help.

I live in a house with a decent-size garden. Behind it is a semi-wild area with mature trees I can see from where I work. Sitting here, reading the editorial,...

I think "Evolution" is a good concept to keep in mind in improvement exercises - and, especially, the follow-on. Why? The theory of evolution includes "The Survival of the Fittest"....

I think that this crisis is going to make a permanent step-change in the way organisations work. Currently, I work for the NHS (yes, it is organised mayhem at the...

Hi Steve - I think it is amazing that you can think up a new question challenge each day (and that you can produce the editorial similarly - and sometimes...

Just a question about flushing temp tables.

From what I have experienced, if a routine creates one or more temp tables on the first run, these are just used again on...

I have been looking at electric cars - in the UK the government has put in place tax incentives and grants to try and boost the sector.

I am 6'8" (2.03m)...

The increase in complexity of the database environments easily keeps pace with any tools created that purport the remove the need for a DBA. Perhaps the tools do address what...

Hi, the table under vCore Options looks exactly the same as that for DTUs. Is this correct?

Absolutely!