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  • RE: Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?

    david.gugg (6/14/2013)


    I've only been in the professional workspace for 5 years now, so I probably don't have the perspective that most of you do. I like the idea of...

  • RE: The Five Year Plan

    David.Poole (6/13/2013)


    Anyone starting today would be shocked by what their predecessors had to to to fight with the early versions of MFC. The sheer amount of code that was...

  • RE: When Windows don’t provide illumination

    JJ B (6/10/2013)


    I do not understand the point of this Editorial. I do not know anything about the the GUI tools in SSMS for creating tables, but I am...

  • RE: The Decision to Fail

    Evil Kraig F (6/7/2013)


    I own my failures. They should too. DR is not a one system show. I can't DR anything that doesn't have proper backup from...

  • RE: Relying on Algorithms

    phonetictalk (6/3/2013)


    My Netflix homepage is a dozen preschool shows (Sesame Street, Dr Seuss movies, Leap Frog, Curious George, Disney, Thomas) followed by "critically-acclaimed violent movies" including Pulp Fiction and Reservoir...

  • RE: Relying on Algorithms

    Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well pleases. -- Murphy's technology laws

    Our SW company was...

  • RE: Data Will Drive the World

    Pierre Gallois


    If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one...

  • RE: Trusting Systems

    OCTom (5/23/2013)


    All employees like to think their work is high priority. The reality is that very few systems and employees are mission critical. If you have identified the mission critical...

  • RE: Trusting Systems

    jay-h (5/23/2013)


    Unfortunately many businesses like stores that SHOULD be able to function in a power outage, for example, cannot because they have become completely dependent on automation.

    Barcode scanners basically started...

  • RE: Understanding HA

    My last company had a yearly requirement to do a "full" DR test. Luckily we had our own offsite DR location so we could do unofficial testing. We also replicated...

  • RE: Better Coding, More Savings

    When I was doing development work on a regular basis, I always kept my old computer as long as I could, as they were cycling out for the latest and...

  • RE: The State of the Cloud

    I look at putting data in the cloud as the worst possible thing you can do with it.

    Every hacker in the world can get at it.

    Yes M$, and Google...

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    L' Eomot Inversé (5/3/2013)


    I started out without anything much at all in the way of people skills, but got good training as I drifted up the hierarchy and ended up...

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    During my interview, I told them I do not ever want to manage people. I can do team management for short term projects or play mentor, but don't expect me...

  • RE: Upgrading to 2012

    djackson 22568 (4/19/2013)


    I know someone in management that was telling everyone he could about how relational databases are a thing of the past, because he read an article on Mongo...

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