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  • RE: Archiving

    Data Archival is a process that should always be given as much weight at the original design of the database as other factors are, but sadly is not. I am...

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  • RE: The Age of Software

    IceDread (6/23/2011)


    Feels like fundamental flaw when a database server is highly dependent on it's operating system..

    The fact is that several physical database characteristics on database servers ARE OS dependent, and...

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  • RE: Regular Audit Analysis

    roger.plowman (6/24/2011)


    Auditing data access I would think is near impossible to scale.

    For example, the ideal situation would log every record's access by every individual who accesses it, presumably with a...

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  • RE: You Don't Know Enough

    I'm definitely in favor of code reviews. I do them all the time. It's the resistant attitude from developers when they don't want to change their code and don't have...

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  • RE: The Value of Data

    This is just the start of things to come. You will start to see a lot of changes and restrictions down the road to the Internet. it used to be...

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  • RE: The Chance of Failure

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/1/2011)


    TravisDBA (3/31/2011)


    I was not just referring to small mom and pop shops, I was referring to large geographically distributed IT enterprises as well, and it...

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  • RE: The Chance of Failure

    TravisDBA (3/31/2011)


    Eric M Russell (3/31/2011)


    Disaster recovery is actually easier in the modern IT world than it was in times past. One hundred years ago, if the county courthouse burnt to...

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  • RE: The Chance of Failure

    Eric M Russell (3/31/2011)


    Disaster recovery is actually easier in the modern IT world than it was in times past. One hundred years ago, if the county courthouse burnt to the...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: SQL in the Sun

    Personally, I have heard from a couple of people whose company popped for the tab for them to go and they told me that for what they learned at the...

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  • RE: Do You Need A Safe Word?

    Aaron N. Cutshall (3/24/2011)


    OCTom (3/24/2011)


    One place I worked at got hacked because an employee trusted a friend of a friend's nephew to borrow her personal laptop on which she stored,...

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  • RE: Test Before Deciding

    J Thaddeus Klopcic (3/22/2011)


    It always amazes me that we can meet for hours arguing about design issues that could be determined in about twenty minutes of testing and monitoring on...

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  • RE: The Business - Part 2

    Most of the difference comes down to perception, from both sides. Many managers are perceived by IT as "techno-phobic" or "techno-ignorant". While many IT people are seem by managment as...

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  • RE: Test Before Deciding

    This kind of goes without saying don't you think? I test everything before I put it into production. That is why I have a QA DB server.:-D

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  • RE: Looking at SOX

    Lynn Pettis (3/20/2011)


    Well, SOX can be applied to smaller companies without requiring them to hire personnel they can't afford. SOX could require they establish those necessary policies and procedures.

    Can't...

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  • RE: Looking at SOX

    However, if you have established solid processes and documentation procedures showing what is going on through out the process with several sets of eyes observing the process and signing off,...

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