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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...
May 28, 2008 at 9:34 am
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...
May 20, 2008 at 1:00 pm
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...
May 15, 2008 at 9:29 am
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...
May 15, 2008 at 9:23 am
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...
May 14, 2008 at 9:07 am
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...
May 12, 2008 at 9:23 am
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...
May 8, 2008 at 3:14 pm
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...
April 25, 2008 at 9:33 am
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.:)
April 24, 2008 at 12:13 pm
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...
April 23, 2008 at 8:24 am
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...
April 22, 2008 at 9:43 am
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...
April 15, 2008 at 9:21 am
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...
April 14, 2008 at 9:39 am
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...
April 11, 2008 at 9:28 am
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...
April 8, 2008 at 9:37 am
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