How to find out to someone is cheating on a job interview
If you are the person giving the technical interview you’ve got a couple of jobs on your hands. First is the most obvious, to gauge the technical skills of the person sitting in front of you. The second is to see if the technical skills that they are presenting to you are actually their own, […]
Why you shouldn’t cheat on a job interview
I see questions on various forums all the time from people who are trying to land that first job who are asking for brain dumps on what they need to know to pass an interview to get a job. Sometimes these are people who have been working in the field for a few years, and […]
It’s #sqlpass summit session announcement time
So I’ve managed to trick the kind folks of the SQL PASS program committee once again this year. I’ve gotten two sessions accepted for the summit. The first is a “regular session” which is the normal 75 minute community session during which I’ll be presenting “Where should I be encrypting my data” during which I’ll […]
Auto Close, Contained Databases and DDoS
One of the features which has been announced to be coming in SQL Server “Denali” is the “Contained Database” feature. The feature which I’m looking for the most from Contained Databases is the ability to create a user within the database without having to first create a login for the user. This will make database […]