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  • RE: Deploy the Database First

    IMHO, I think this is a wise approach. We all know that the application code and the database are different. App code is generally easy to replace while database changes...

    The more you are prepared, the less you need it.

  • RE: The Cost of Switching

    David.Poole (1/24/2015)


    Andrew..Peterson (1/23/2015) Does anyone remember COBOL?

    Have you seen the contract rates for COBOL programmers!!!!!

    Do I remember COBOL? Everytime I look at a NOSQL document database.

    Exactly! Sometimes...

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  • RE: The Cost of Switching

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/22/2015)


    Andrew..Peterson (1/21/2015)


    Steve, perhaps as the point person for SSC, you can start a petition (or similar) to MS to wake up. I'd like...

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  • RE: R-E-S-P-E-C-T

    History is long about the endless battle between the factors of industry. The last 100+ years has been one where labor has been on the rise, but is now...

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  • RE: The Cost of Switching

    First off - the features to be included and the eventual selling price are set by the marketing department & brand management. I've never seen a company where the...

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  • RE: Hadoop and SQL Server

    Oh, and I have seen some demo's of where MS has done a great deal of work integrating Hadoop into the parallel data warehouse (old name). I would like...

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  • RE: Hadoop and SQL Server

    While I was doing a project at Yahoo (2009), I was able to spend some time better understanding Hadoop - and the key IMHO, is that Hadoop is a tool...

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  • RE: A Little Empathy

    Ah, yes, how true. Technology is just a tool, and end users just want it to work. Perhaps why so many users are switching to Mac's. (hint to...

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  • RE: Citizen Programmers

    gregg_dn (12/11/2014)


    If developers gave users what they needed, most people would never attempt to write code.

    In an ideal world, users would have the tools they need, and the...

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  • RE: Managerial Moneyball

    Isn't Moneyball about using data to improve the odds of picking and using individual contributors? So, to that end, I could see a large company, lets pick Google for discussion,...

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  • RE: Always Canary

    Running DDL's against a production database is like changing a tire while the car is still moving. The data and the schema are so tightly integrated. In my old...

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  • RE: How Often Does Production Drift?

    Change management is always an issue. And many of us, if we have had the DBA hat on, have had times that required a quick fix, one that could...

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  • RE: The 2014 PASS Summit - Thursday

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/10/2014)


    Andrew..Peterson (11/10/2014)


    "There were more people looking to secure their systems, though a surprising number of people using TDE had never attempted a DR restore. Please,...

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  • RE: The 2014 PASS Summit - Thursday

    "There were more people looking to secure their systems, though a surprising number of people using TDE had never attempted a DR restore. Please, please, do this. Make sure that...

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  • RE: Pay It Forward

    What this really gets down to is that there are a few really good organizations, and quite a few poor ones. Good organizations use all the parts of their...

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