From Vandalism to Serious Crime
It seems that there are new types of hacker attacks, not looking to steal information for profit, but for disclosure as an embarrassment. Steve Jones talks about the potential downsides for DBAs.
2011-09-06
130 reads
Editorials
Labor Day 2011
It's a holiday in the US today and Steve Jones provides a little entertainment for those people still at work.
2011-09-05
74 reads
Piracy and Agile
Do Agile IT projects have anything to learn from the organizational structures and laws used by pirates? Phil Factor is not convinced.
2011-09-05
119 reads
The Growth of Data Types
This week Steve Jones asks you what you think will make up the majority of your future databases? Will it be numerical data or will some other type come to dominate?
2011-09-02
139 reads
Where Do You Park?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Most people work in an office and need to commute, which brings with it the inevitable fight for parking in many companies. How is it handled for you?
2011-09-01
168 reads
The Special Cloud
Amazon has built a cloud just for the US government. Will we see more specialized clouds in the future that might let us move some of our data to the cloud?
2011-08-31
128 reads
An Investment in Knowledge
Inspired by a quote from Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jones talks about investing in your career.
2011-08-30
263 reads
A Look Back at Apple
With the resignation of Steve Jobs from Apple this week, Steve Jones looks back at his memories of the tech icon.
2011-08-29
109 reads
Specialists or Generalists: Who are best as Developers?
Should we have specialists or generalists working as developers in our companies? A guest editorial today from Mike Angelastro asks the question.
2011-08-29
251 reads
Would You Rather Work for a Strong or Weak Manager?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy asks if you prefer to have a strong manager or weak one, and why.
2011-08-26
188 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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