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  • RE: The Best Days

    Steve, you said your body was aching a bit more than normal when you wrote this editorial.

    Well there ya have it -- the 'ol mind-body connection - sort of...

  • RE: Mining for Experts

    On a related note, I saw some interesting articles this weekend about "Wolfram Alpha" which calls itself a "computational knowledge engine" - perhaps not exactly a direct competitor to Google,...

  • RE: Ethics and Leaders - Database Weekly (Apr 27, 2009)

    The best coaches I remember were those who knew their sport inside-out, pushed you, and had high expectations of each individual player and of the team as a whole.

    Sometimes these...

  • RE: All-Access

    An industry survey we co-sponsored last year showed that BI vendor pricing/licensing has historically been one of the biggest obstacles to the deployment of Pervasive BI. All those seats start...

  • RE: Interfaces

    Charles Kincaid (4/23/2009)


    jay holovacs (4/23/2009)


    [BTW am I the only person who HATES laptop touch pads? They slow me down enormously, and are very fatiguing. I can't imagine doing any serious...

  • RE: Lassoing a Cloud

    skjoldtc (4/17/2009)


    Whether one likes the idea of cloud computing or not, it is coming and we need to be prepared. It will not be a DBA's decision to use a...

  • RE: Becoming a Google Earth

    Some people bake their own cakes and have full control of all the ingredients and steps involved. Others don't have the time or skillset so they go to a...

  • RE: Dreaming of Clouds

    Jason Miller (4/16/2009)


    I guess it all boils down to the fact that at SOME point, you still have to have people that deal with the machines themselves and...

  • RE: The Cloud of Destiny

    Michael Valentine Jones (4/15/2009)


    Bob Abernethy (4/15/2009)

    ...I'm sure that the vast majority of the decision-makers in these thousands of companies are intelligent profesisonals who went through a valid decision-making process that...

  • RE: The Cloud of Destiny

    I just don't think it's at all accurate to say or to imply that the many companies who made the decision to use salesforce.com or other SaaS solutions all made...

  • RE: The Cloud of Destiny

    chrise (4/13/2009)


    I think it's a great concept. It's going back to the old timesharing days when you'd log on to an IBM mainframe and pay for what you used.

    I...

  • RE: SSAS Cube to End user

    You may also want to check out our own front-end solution for Analysis Services, called Analyzer. It's easy for non-technical business users, easy for IT to install and deploy (100%...

  • RE: Encrypting SQL Code

    The best advice I ever got about encryption was this:

    "fvlsdbjawdygexdvnsdfyeqrmcnbsdfsdofglkfbnsdkfasgsfd;zdjfhasdsjbc"

    😀

  • RE: Ruthless

    Overcommitments - used to do that a lot. No more. "Just Say No." Biggest time-saver of all.

    I use an iPod. Loaded it with all my music - which did...

  • RE: Managing Risk

    Sounds to me like the makers of Risk (the game) were taking a risk when they changed they look and feel of Risk. And that change has led to some...

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