There was an interesting post on Reddit yesterday asking what DBA jobs are like these days. Here's a snippet of the most important part: Our friend works for maybe 15 hours a week, on call for maybe 40 but is always running around not in front of his computer. She works odd hours, takes the shifts like Saturdays and Friday nights…And the rest of the time she watches YouTube/does other things while on call.

It's official: SQL Server 2022 was the last release for SSRS. At SQLBits this week, Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2025 won't include SSRS. Instead, all SQL Server 2025 customers will get free licensing for the on-premises Power BI Report Server (PBIRS.) The same license key you use to install 2025 will also work to activate PBIRS. Microsoft's got links on how it'll work:

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The research, led by Geoffrey Ellis, a petroleum geochemist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has been published in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that tapping...

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Ontarians will see their clocks turn back by an hour this Sunday, as they switch back to standard time until the spring — a change that seems to spark the same debate every November.

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping technology, according to a new study.

To answer why people might be drawn to speeding up media, CBC News talked to some of the leading researchers in cognitive science about what double-time music, podcasts and movies does to our brains.

The water level of western PA's Youghiogheny River Lake is the lowest it's been since 1998, revealing some fascinating ruins.

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Decentralized Twitter/X rival Bluesky is adding to its ranks by scooping up a member of its developer community. London-based software engineer Samuel Newman, who built the well-received third-party Bluesky client, Graysky, is joining the startup, where…

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When I think about the Windows software makers that have been around the longest and have made the most impact, one rises to the top.

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