jay-h (11/29/2012)

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"don't explain too much" is an excellent bit of advice for any technical discussion.

Of course it goes without saying that you don't misrepresent the situation, talk down or over...

Krowley, i actually did for awhile. i worked at the Cape on the Shuttle program back in the early 90's.:-D

I also agree Dizzy and krowley. There are ways to communicate/explain this to a manager without getting too technical and still get the basic point across. However, after explaining in...

John Hanrahan (11/28/2012)[hr:-D]I have been through several SOX audits and have never heard of that. I would have have said stick it, see the job description says "and other...

It's not just unencrypted data that auditors ding you on nowadays. Wearing many hats at once and doing things outside your job description can definitely get you dinged as well....

This is exactly why I love KeePass 2.20. Not only does it generate 20 character secure passwords for you like zFLLsXUu3Cxjn2wy6Pys it also stores them in a central, safe...

That warning is not just about the cloud, that is a warning about every major business transaction in life.:-D

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/26/2012)

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The DTA recommendations shouldn't be taken blindly. I think rookies can use it, but take one change at a time, test it, and see if...

It helps if the aliens are helping you build aerial markers for them!:-D

Actually, the cost of disk storage over the last 10 years has seen a pretty straight decline in the cost of hard disk drives. A Terabyte or two isn't all...

Tom,

Actually, it's been my experience that when people don't admit a failure upfront when they had a chance to, and then people find out about it, or come to that...

Gary Varga (11/15/2012)

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I always recommend that people tell the(ir) truth and have it documented. What other people choose to use, how to use it or what they decide is up...

Gary Varga (11/15/2012)

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I recently provided a client a set of analysis with estimates twice. The estimates were, of course, longer...

I tried RedGate's SQL Monitor a couple of times (mainly because of the price) but in the end I had to uniinstall it. It was just hogging all the memory...

Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager is one of the best SQL Server monitoring tools available IMHO. 😀

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