I saw an amazing article on how Oracle would save hundreds of thousands of dollars per year because the tooling was so much better that it took Oracle DBAs 10...

I'd be fine if it wasn't for the meetings I have to attend and timesheets I have to fill in and worrying about which pot of wooden dollars are going...

There are a lot of practises that have been available for years and this is one of them. Over the past few years I've gone on a bit of...

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

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

I've been surprised by the cost of some NOSQL solutions. By the time you do the sizing and capacity piece plus DR the costs can be considerably more than...

I think SQLCLR hit a cultural barrier. DBAs were hesitant and perceived it to be a Trojan horse to allow all sorts of sins to be inflicted on the...

I'm finding that business people don't have all the answers to ITs questions. "What are your requirements?" elicited an unusually frank conversation from an extremely successful career woman....

From what I've read AWS EMR is an implementation of MapR

Unsupervised digital landfill. Doesn't sound as nice as a lake does it?

Actually Hadoop fulfils a data lake need reasonably well. Lets suppose that you have data that you...

Eric, you've reminded me of a good point. There seem to be five key Hadoop distributions.