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I think most of mine were around the people skills thing.
Not grasping the true meaning of what "its not what you know, its who you know" thing and "People and...
May 17, 2014 at 3:34 pm
That's actually an excellent point. You get promoted to a role where they are unsure as to what they want you to do, aren't clear what your objectives are...
May 9, 2014 at 2:48 pm
Whats wrong with eventual consistency? Its not designed to be a drop in replacement for the 'C' in ACID right? Its more like the 'C' in CAP from what I...
May 9, 2014 at 2:23 pm
Our backups are restored to a secondary location nightly thereby prooving that the backups can in fact be restored.
This is a process worked out in collaboration between DBAs and sysadmins....
May 9, 2014 at 2:13 am
Google the "Hype Cycle".
NOSQL is such a broad term that it is next to meaningless.
Not all NOSQL solutions deliver "No single point of failure".
BASE has made people realise how much...
May 8, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Phil Factor wrote a nice piece about an IT department training their manager. Basically training him or her to be a good manager.
Each level of management attempts to manage...
May 7, 2014 at 9:27 am
If someone says "I want this project better, faster and cheaper" then if you are able to do that the implications are that you had a really inefficient system with...
May 6, 2014 at 2:15 am
Don't bet on that. Amazon succeeded in getting many US governments into clouds, by building separate data centers and locating them in the US. It's possible we'll see an Azure...
April 29, 2014 at 1:50 pm
In today's news the US Government have decided that Microsoft data held in Ireland must be made available to the US government. If that decision is upheld then the...
April 29, 2014 at 4:06 am
jcrawf02 (4/25/2014)
Curious how adding records to a table would be any different than creating a single stored procedure to add extended properties?
There are a few reasons why I stuck...
April 25, 2014 at 11:24 am
Unfortunately there are some DB systems that absolutely require the password to be stored in a file in clear text in order for certain tools to run.
The most you can...
April 24, 2014 at 1:24 am
Doctor Who 2 (4/18/2014)
April 19, 2014 at 8:39 am
but what struck me as amusing (and a little over the top) was the presenter calling RDBMSs "legacy" all day long.
I've found that the techy types at the NOSQL...
April 17, 2014 at 11:51 am
It's worth reading Nathan Marz's book Big Data[/url]. It's an easy read but as a MEAP there are a few glaring typos.
It goes into the Lamda architecture in depth...
April 17, 2014 at 1:57 am
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