Discovery is critical, without it we are destined to repeat only what we know with no hope of moving the info technology frontier forward. In short it becomes boring.

But the...

When things like OPENQUERY against an LDAP store are available in stored procedures you know that it has gone a long ways from create a table read a record.

What...

Tin Pin - I recently had major heart surgery and had a few months of recovery. Meds were plentiful and the old brain had a few very hard days.

When...

Played the guitar, violin, a little mandolin, dulcimer, piano and a smattering of harmonica. Love music over the years and still do.

I wear headphones with music on all day and...

Steve,

Encryption is an interesting beast and should be embraced. Management of keys is a bit tricky which you stated well. And we all have a number of thoughtful opinions about...

We like others let the business drive the decision to upgrade. We have not and probably will not boycott any software product. However like Vista it could be years before...

Steve,

Most of the discussion was about the product you mentioned but little on the size of some of the tables we will be seeing in the near future. We can...

Thanks Steve this is a great question. And the discussion is excellent.

A few random thoughts -

Duplicates are not a great solution when you index an high Insert environment. however...

Sybase does not have the simple English Query that SQL Server has and possibly the IRS does not want a lot of time spent on agents learning SQL.:)

Robert -

Excellent question. What I would do is to use the battery that has stored the e- from the light hours. Or go out to the beach with...

Steve - We run a mixture. Developers and other IT professionals have admin rights on their boxes. However they are told that they are ultimatly responsible for the box.

The normal...

Thank you for the wisdom in this. When we pass truths like this to the new and young we help them avoid the mistakes we ourselves have made.

Learning by experience...

I guess what I would ask is are we providing a service or are we the business?

If we provide service we serve at the will and desire of the...

Since I have not put out a serious resume for almost 20 years I probably do not count. However, if I were to I would not include any reference to...

Adding a new application should not be adding just another point of vulnerability. Thank you for the words and reminder about not leaving the keys in the car with the...