Does regulation make data any safer?

Working with healthcare organizations, I am constantly aware of the restrictions my staff and I must abide by according to HIPAA constraints. ...

Happy Thanksgiving

I'm cheerfully taking the day off today (and tomorrow too!), and I'm writing this a week in advance as I...

Workaround Primary Key Violations in SSIS

Before you get much further, please do not use this for every case where you have issues with duplicate rows....

Surface Demo

Second try. The video didn’t embed in the previous post. Nor this one. Here's the link
Microsoft Surface Demo

 
 
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Surface Possibilities

This is interesting. I’m not sold on Surface, though I did play with one last week in Seattle.

Spend Money to Make Money

One of those old sayings that has a grain or two of truth to it. Stocks, real estate, education even,...

Airlines Don't Care About Customers? Nor Does The Government!

I saw this post about a recent panel that tried to come up with guidelines for airlines as far as...

Catching Up

My goal of 400 posts a month has been in jeopardy with all the traveling I've been doing over the...

PC Magazine Going out of Print

Saw a post from Michael Miller that PC Magazine will end it's print version with the January issue. Have to...

The Advantage of Seattle - Where to host the PASS Community Summit

I heard during last week that the 2009 PASS Community Summit will be back in Seattle, on Nov 3-6 next...