Learned a long time ago to not accept the old excuse of 'nothing has changed'.  

When I hear this from the teams that I work with, my response...

I have zero interest in IoT being added to my car.
It is simply another point of failure.  Expensive to troubleshoot and fix.
My wife's 2015 GM products 'infotainment' system...

I am an architect for a very large, well known Fortune 120 company.
I would love to have a diagram for every database that I am responsible for (or work...

chrisn-585491 (11/9/2015)

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Dave,

Increased license costs of SQL Server will drive more business away from MS than security concerns. If the industry were concerned about security, we would have abandon C and...

Eric M Russell (8/20/2015)

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Programmers have it a lot easier than doctors. We have the luxery of practicing on test subjects, before moving on to the real thing, and even when...

Too bad there is no up vote or something similar, because this post...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/2/2015)

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podmate (7/2/2015)

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My first career was literally saving babies (running life support on extremely premature infants).

I find that IT is a far more stressful career than...

Eric M Russell (7/2/2015)

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Maybe BI developers who use SSIS and SSRS daily have a different perspective, but as someone in Dev/Ops who spends most of my time coding T-SQL in...

My first career was literally saving babies (running life support on extremely premature infants).

I find that IT is a far more stressful career than medicine.

In medicine, we are (mostly) working...

Hopefully MS will give some love to SSMS and make it a better, more useful product.

I spend most of my day in SSMS and while it does the job, there...

I use PowerShell mostly for file/folder manipulation.

Zipping/Unzipping, renaming files/folders, validating file headers, getting file line counts, moving/copying files/folders from one location to another and stuff like this.