You should check out this SQL Bits presentation on SQL Injection by Grant Fritchey before you connect a website to a database. This will help you get a handle on...

Thank you Kathi. Here's hoping the new position at Redgate is everything you want it to be.

That's the truth...

This is a really interesting idea Steve. I think I'm going to dedicate some time to writing my manual. It sounds like a great way to really think about what...

Off the top of my head, Only a few accounts have access to production limiting the accounts...

I didn't have a good feeling about their rollbacks from...

We had a directive from corporate to upgrade all our server OSes to 2019. I was informed by IT that they were going to in-place upgrade the SQL Server OSes....

My company has MFA setup on our VPN connection and any time we RDC into a server. The default is Microsoft Authenticator. Most of the time it works fine and...

I played with R a little bit but it's not for me. I find python much more interesting and easier to wrap my head around. I'll continue to work on...

Taking off my DBA hat and putting on my developer hat. I agree with Steve that we need to think through scenarios for the code we write. Can we always...

I work for a lab and basically any lab that's capable of running PCR / antigen testing probably is right now. This obviously skews our data from over 2 years...

I (vaguely) remember working with...

My first computer was a HeathKit Computer Learning Center. It had a CPU, hex keypad, a few 7 segment LEDs, some other chips and a breadboard. It was fun to...

I'd be concerned about generating a random color that was too close to the background color and difficult to read. What if you picked, say, 20-30 colors ahead of time...

Before my company was bought out, I had something of a training budget but even then it wasn't enough to cover going to PASS in person between the cost of...