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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...
June 3, 2022 at 5:12 pm
Thank you Kathi. Here's hoping the new position at Redgate is everything you want it to be.
May 23, 2022 at 2:56 pm
”if you want something real bad, that’s the way you’ll usually get it”.
That's the truth...
April 22, 2022 at 5:53 pm
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...
April 18, 2022 at 2:18 pm
So, why is it a bad idea to use production data in test/dev?
Off the top of my head, Only a few accounts have access to production limiting the accounts...
March 2, 2022 at 5:48 pm
YIKES!!
However, I'm on board with this in general. No, not in-place vs. side-by-side. Rollbacks. Rollbacks are almost never really achievable.
I didn't have a good feeling about their rollbacks from...
February 2, 2022 at 8:55 pm
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....
February 2, 2022 at 6:49 pm
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...
January 19, 2022 at 5:53 pm
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...
January 14, 2022 at 6:26 pm
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...
January 12, 2022 at 3:38 pm
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...
January 5, 2022 at 4:33 pm
Does anyone here remember FoxPro for DOS and Clipper? Old timers in the IT outback will occasionally see these things still living in the wild.
I (vaguely) remember working with...
December 17, 2021 at 7:10 pm
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...
December 17, 2021 at 5:29 pm
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...
November 22, 2021 at 7:39 pm
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...
November 15, 2021 at 5:00 pm
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