Mark Chaffin

Mark Chaffin is Data Warehouse Architect for Encore Development (http://www.encoredev.com) and has developed numerous decision support systems for clients in such industries as technology, mortgage banking, retail, financial services and insurance. He also has experience in clickstream analytics, data mining, transactional application architecture, Internet application architecture, database administration and database design. He has completed a book about Data Transformation Services with Brian Knight (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bknight).

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Independence Day 2026

In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.

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