Been on agile teams for almost 2 decades, and know almost every detail about Agile. My point is that Agile is not the perfect / end-all system of development if...

I think agile is a good practice overall, but sometimes not enough up-front planning is done on the project as a whole. People just pick the first logical thing they...

One of the absolute worst features ever of SQL Server. At the very least, there should be an option to turn this off and make it optional. Let's make everyone...

My company decided 2 years ago to phase out our SQL Servers due to costs. At first I was devastated with the decision, and thought I'd need to leave the...

Surrogate keys are practically always the only way to go for ease of development as well as performance, especially in large databases. A single column int or bigint will always...

I'm impressed. Spark with SQL Server shows that Microsoft is finally getting the demand for truly scalable BI within the product. Good deal. We left SQL Server behind... this is...

This is one of those things that's completely different for different people and depends on what type of work they are doing. I like to be able to go away...

Hopefully the US does not follow Europe's overreaching business-crunching GDPR edict. There's already enough government regulation on US companies.
I know, I know, an unpopular vote here probably. If a...

Sounds like this is only from a DBA point of view. As a database developer, we're continually developing new software, stored procs, SSIS packages, script, etc.

Always something to...

There has to be a balance here. I mean, if automation will put so many people out of work, then who will be able to buy the stuff that these...

It absolutely does matter. Being rude will get you nowhere in business. Short term it might not matter as much, but medium to long term this "shusher" will see people...

The titles will definitely change and DBA will be phased out. I've always had a Database Developer or Database Engineer type of title, and even that is being phased out...

GDPR = government overreach and over-regulation. Yes, we have to comply, and there are some aspects which make sense to protect consumers, but overall it's just too much, kind of...