My biggest challenge is probably whether to pivot to Postgres or data engineering in general, in light of the increasing market capture for PG and absorbtion of DBA activities into...

But I hadn't thought of migrating the database to the cloud. Would it be good for me to consider that, especially if I chose to use a PaaS approach,...

At the gigs I've worked at in the last five years, I've seen an increasing number of use cases that fit MI thanks to the expanding feature set, but also...

It's the company that release SQL Server 2019 and 2022, which I've tested as being > 23% slower than SQL Server 2017 and that's just for code that only...

I would be very curious to know how many people routinely upgrade the _underlying_ operating system.

We're cursed to have a couple of SQL instances on Windows 2016. Nothing is...

IME, the issue with in-place upgrades is when they work, they work fine, but when they don't they tend to produce more unusual error states that can be tricky to...

Same as you this year Steve - there are some decent reductions on security cameras so I'm extending coverage, which I was looking to do anyway.

I think it's rare these...

I use singular - but will happily work with anything other than the naming convention of Oracle JDE tables I once had to work with - F0411, F300261 etc. Yeah,...

For personal use at least, I feel like CPUs have been 'good enough' for some years. My desktop still has an i5-2500k from 2011, and my laptop has a i3...

I love building PCs still - though I rarely get to do it as I don't upgrade that much these days. Especially as it's a lot safer than it was...

They seem to be on their way out. Some shops I've worked at or known through colleagues had no SSAS (but plenty of databases and a DW), and of the...

Certification is a learning path that forces you out of your comfort zone.When I see someone with certs on their resume, I at least know they tried to get...

At my last company we had two aspects to interviews - both some canned HR type stuff and the technical side.

For the technical part, I'd modified an existing list of...

"It doesn't hurt to remember that sometimes when all you can hear around you is people shouting about what's new"

Amen!

Especially now - both with the stream of new things in...

Interesting set of features ticked off there.

I haven't really used it much mainly because I don't really have requirements that SSMS doesn't satisfy, being primarily a Production/Platform DBA. So no...