I came to the DBA party a bit late, and I'm not sure that I would really be considered a DBA. I think of myself first and foremost as a...

jay holovacs (6/29/2011)

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Charles Kincaid (6/29/2011)

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... Not long ago I saw a demonstration of an oil cooled server. It was very overclocked and they did this as a more effective...

This is an excellent analogy and I'm going to use it during my next push to get time and tools for various kinds of scheduled maintenance on our systems.

When I...

I think you hit the nail on the head with your comment "if the OS still works for you..." Obviously, if I need a particular piece of software and it...

I think that multiple failures may actually be more common than single ones. As others have pointed out, there are a number of reasons why multiple failures may not be...

cfradenburg (6/13/2011)

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The fact that we won't have control if the service goes down also doesn't sit well. It's not fun being in a position to say that we don't...

I'm a huge fan of sensible defaults and basic performance-related reporting. Rightly or wrongly, I assume that a plain default install is suitable for the normal use case whether we're...

I have a question related to the fact that there seems to be a lot of demand that programmers have a bunch of their own work to show off. Is...

I do plenty of reading. The equivalent of a 2-3 novels per week. I cover all the bases, including a fair amount of stuff that helps build the skills I...

One of the problems I think we all run into is that many (most?) people outside IT already think we're already specialists: computers. If a computer is in any way...

I see lots of companies starting to see that they can benefit from the fact that so many people are running around with smart phones. What I don't see is...

PhilDaniels (5/23/2011)

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My reasoning is perfectly sound...Core inflation is over 3% and excludes gasoline and food prices. Add those in, and inflation goes to about 7%. So, it is a perfectly...

jcrawf02 (5/11/2011)

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WolforthJ (5/11/2011)

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It is amazing how ingrained in the culture of IT the idea of always being ready to quit is. Steve's expression of it as the first thing you...

jay holovacs (5/10/2011)

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It falls into the 'right tool for the right job'

Financials, order entry, etc need to be exact. By comparison many of the largist data set operations (such...

Being one of those people who included the 'cloud' in my drawings, I've always been suspicious of the 'real' cloud. I've always used the cloud as shorthand for something between...