Do you have an outbound firewall from where you are connecting? That has been the single most frequent reason for errors like this in my experience. The folks configuring the...

I am late to this party, but am reminded of a company where I worked as a contractor in 1995. They ran their accounting on a System 36 they had...

Another great book on early computing and testing is Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson. Highly recommended.

Awesome! If the article is correct, I can install SSMS, skip the whole SQL Server backend piece, and still build great databases to run my business. Think of the money...

Cyberark...

When I worked at a Fortune 100 company, passwords that were used by machines only, and not people, had a 12 month password change cycle. Changing machine only passwords every...

Some random thoughts on what we've learned since moving to scaled agile at my work:

• The more stories you write, the better you get at writing them. It's a skill,...

Make sure that the necessary powershell modules are installed on the server where SSIS is running. We've encountered this before, and since our SQL servers do not have internet access,...

Almost never is test/dev secured as well as production. This is a place where many data breaches have occurred.

While this isn't as much of an issue for you, Rod,...

Biggest arguments I've had with developers :

Insistence on putting all of the logic in C#, with no consideration given to whether a stored procedure would be better. Debugging LINQ to...

We just tell the infrastructure folks how many cores we need, how much memory, and how much disk, and the server name. They let us know when it's ready. We...

My thanks to Jeff, Voldemar and Scott.

@jeff, I was thinking of getting the remote server name through some variable or a function in remote server while...

In 1995, I worked as a contractor for a small company that had a 13 year old IBM System 36 running their accounting system. It was slow, and had some...

Joe, that's not how the real world works. Most of the access control data I've seen sends the database a swipe time, a direction, and the number of the access...

BODS is SAP Business Object Data Services. HDBODBC is a SAP Hana based ODBC driver. If I understand correctly, BODS is writing data to a warehouse on SQL Server, and...