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  • RE: The Penalty for a Data Breach

    Rod at work (6/13/2016)

    I never really thought about who pays for a data breach. I assumed the company did, but your article Steve shows me its likely the insurance company...

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    June 15, 2016 at 6:39 am

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  • RE: Great Developers

    TravisDBA (3/12/2012)

    I would definitely agree, particularly if all they are concerned about is their own job security. Then they don't usually share or document what they do.:-D

    Interesting. For me,...

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    June 7, 2016 at 8:26 am

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  • RE: Bias, the Serial Killer of Diversity

    Matt Miller (#4) (5/31/2016) Bias is NOT the same as using your experience and judgment.

    And yet, so often, that is exactly what it is - that and nothing more.

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    June 3, 2016 at 4:57 am

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  • RE: Bias, the Serial Killer of Diversity

    GSquared (5/31/2016)

    David.Poole (5/27/2016)

    If you turn up to an interview as Britain's worst presented compost heap then more fool you. You don't know who you are going to meet, whether...

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    June 2, 2016 at 8:05 am

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  • RE: The Politics of SQL Security

    Kyrilluk (5/23/2016)

    Jeff Moden (5/23/2016)

    I simply ask if he'll enjoy reading about himself in the morning news after the company has suffered a breach. I also explain that customers can...

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    May 31, 2016 at 6:49 am

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  • RE: Solving Tempdb Issues

    Markus (5/13/2016)

    I find it amazing that still today that if you take the defaults the sizing and growth percentages for TEMP DB, model, msdb and master are so low. ...

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    May 16, 2016 at 3:11 am

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  • RE: Autoalert if SQLAgent stops

    sqlnewbie17 (5/13/2016)

    It does not run from SQLAgent.

    Message

    Executed as user: The error information returned by PowerShell is: 'The term 'Send-MailMessage' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script...

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    May 13, 2016 at 3:53 am

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  • RE: NTFS Cluster size and performance gains

    It can depend on a number of factors, including the type of workload, but 64k is often regarded as your best starting point. We've just put in a new...

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    April 22, 2016 at 7:43 am

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  • RE: Lock Escalation: 5000 to 1?

    No, when SQL Server attempts to escalate to a table lock, the escalation will fail if other processes are holding incompatible locks. It doesn't kill competing processes.

    "Lock escalation cannot...

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    April 22, 2016 at 6:39 am

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  • RE: Naming Is Hard

    Apparently a developer or DBA at some point decided it wasn't worth trying to name tables to match some entity and used GUIDs are names instead

    I hate that person. ...

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    April 7, 2016 at 7:22 am

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  • RE: Varchar usage

    Hugo Kornelis (3/29/2016)

    nadersam (3/29/2016)

    why don't we just make all varchar fields size to be 8000 the max size available?

    Because if you do, the question does not become whether someone will...

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    March 30, 2016 at 3:42 am

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  • RE: On formatting SQL code

    Eric M Russell (3/29/2016)

    If management measures developer productivity by the daily average number of lines coded and unit tested, then that obviously influences how aggressively you would use line breaks...

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    March 29, 2016 at 9:29 am

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  • RE: The New Men of IT

    Jeff Moden (3/19/2016)

    GeorgeCopeland (3/19/2016)

    CV is a common business term and it is used extensively in academia. I prefer qualifications brief .

    Heh... I refer to both a "CV" (Curricula Vitae)...

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    March 23, 2016 at 4:50 am

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  • RE: Spousal Surcharges

    thisisfutile (3/14/2016)

    iposner (3/14/2016)

    ...appointments are prioritised on the basis of the gravity of the conditions...

    So if it's so good to be given a number and told to stand in line, why...

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    March 21, 2016 at 7:48 am

    #1866452

  • RE: Spousal Surcharges

    thisisfutile (3/14/2016)

    andrew gothard (3/7/2016)

    djackson 22568 (3/4/2016)

    However what the media doesn't tell you is that every country that has national insurance has huge waiting lists for lots of things, including as...

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    March 17, 2016 at 7:48 am

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