Viewing 15 posts - 1,561 through 1,575 (of 3,617 total)
I know of a female colleague who had a voice box signature "Hi, this is 'x'. If you are calling about the missing 'y' and have found it in...
April 16, 2014 at 1:16 am
Eric M Russell (4/14/2014)
April 14, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Eric, although there is always tme to squeeze something in and learn I think a more formal recognition of the need for experimentation time is needed.
There has to be...
April 14, 2014 at 11:38 am
I know of a company that has a SQL2000 instance still running in SQL7 compatibility mode.
The drive to upgrade comes when it is a physical machine with a spiralling maintenance...
April 11, 2014 at 1:59 am
I wrote an Big Data article [/url]for simple-talk in a similar vein.
Basically, what are the business requirements and how's it going to make money.
Two of the traditional 3Vs of Big...
April 9, 2014 at 1:32 am
skeleton567
I would have loved to call one of these ladies at 2:00 AM and have her go into the data center to handle problems, but that wouldn't have been...
April 6, 2014 at 3:41 pm
Carla Wilson-484785 (4/3/2014)
Stephanie J Brown (3/31/2014)
... If instead of "Women in Technology" the group was called "Breaking Barriers in Technology", it might be viewed through a different lens.
I...
April 6, 2014 at 11:04 am
I started a career in IT when being a bit odd was kind of expected. It wasn't a case of minority-x in technology it was a case of minority-x...
March 31, 2014 at 3:58 pm
Gary Varga (3/19/2014)
I trust that the delay was put in the web page and NOT with the query!!!
Normal coding practises ensure any excess performance is bled off:rolleyes:
March 19, 2014 at 5:03 pm
We've just renamed all our alleged coffee/tea/hot chocolate to "brown", as in "I'll have a cup of brown".
March 19, 2014 at 2:19 am
My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?
YES. Our chief exec stood up before the entire company and said that a web site...
March 18, 2014 at 4:07 pm
I understand the pragmatic need to get stuff done.
One thing I have learnt about compromised solutions is that the time saved by short-cuts increments in a linear fashion (up to...
March 18, 2014 at 2:17 am
A rollback in a non-production environment should be celebrated as preventing a rollback scenario in the production environment. It means that your pre-production environments have justified their existence!
Both deployments...
March 4, 2014 at 1:39 am
I picked up a few Dean Crawford books on a 2nd hand stall. Enjoyable escapism, sort of x-files meets Clive Cussler.
Hollywood seems to be doing more reboots than I...
February 28, 2014 at 1:30 am
In theory in the UK the data protection registra can send the CEO of a company in breach of legislation to prison.
Having data without security is like driving without insurance.
You...
February 26, 2014 at 1:36 am
Viewing 15 posts - 1,561 through 1,575 (of 3,617 total)