People are attracted to lottery style wins. Many times I've seen someone with ambition greater than anything else. They want to be at level 9000 but they don't want to...

I am not sure where IOT will end up. I think the convenience offered currently is trivial to the privacy violations and unnecessary overhead of such systems.

It is a human thing to say that each event / software release was better than the last. Especially if there is some emotion attached to it. Meaning - if...

I think the title of DBA is less dying and more evolving. Many of the core skills will still be needed. If you haven't seen many systems in the wild...

+1 for dbatools. I was amazed when I first came across it and tried some commands.

This is a fascinating contemporary topic that I'm excited to see unfold. In the US I'm curious to see the final straw that breaks the camels back. Do we ever...

I also fall into the stored procedure camp. I prefer to see business logic in the data layer in stored procedures.

It is polarizing for many people to debate Android vs iPhone. Kind of like programmers debating spaces vs tabs (BTW it's tabs FTW). In the end it is about tradeoffs....

Sometimes the best reliability is redundancy. Having another person on a team or another team who is cross trained for coverage.