Hi Steve,

I completely agree on how companies ignore technical debt. Developers raise the issue and management ignores it because another checkbox on the sales flier is what marketing is clamoring...

I like this Jeff. I wish my place didn't stop at "Make it work"....

Dave Plummer, a retired Microsoft engineer has a good explanation of how CrowdStrike could take down 8.5 million computers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts

I'm using 3 24" monitors for work. Outlook, editor and misc programs on the left, mostly SSMS on the middle and chrome on the right. This works very well for...

Steve,

Like David, I'm still grinning remembering your SQL Server on Linux April Fools post. Ya never know!

I have a rotating set of thumb drives that I use to move mp3s from my music library between home and my car. But that's about all I use them...

Frederico - I absolutely agree. I would have loved if we continued to do code reviews instead of caving in to someone who's ego was bruised. Now we're so understaffed...

This hits home for me.

About 11 years ago, not long after I started working for my current employer, the head of development decided we would start instituting code reviews. I...

I'm with you Steve. SSMS isn't perfect but it's the tool I know well vs relearning how to do everything again in ADS. I flat out don't have the time...

Got all 5, clicked the button and no place to enter my information.

Knew the answer, clicked on the wrong link. Monday before coffee... 🙂

Am I misreading the answers or are the last 2 identical?

We can share the prize if this turns out to be the date. Hoping it's...

November 13, 2025

We are in the process of building out an entire new network. When it came time to build the SQL Servers, 2022 hadn’t dropped yet so we deployed 2019. The...