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  • RE: Call Me, Maybe

    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...

  • RE: Big Data - Cost of acquiring skills

    Eric M Russell (4/14/2014)


    I've got half a dozen retired PC boxes stacked in a corner under my desk on which I'm installing a Ubuntu / Hadoop cluster. My intention is...

  • RE: Big Data - Cost of acquiring skills

    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...

  • RE: How Long Before You Upgrade?

    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...

  • RE: Problems with Big Data

    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...

  • RE: X in Technology

    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...

  • RE: X in Technology

    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...

  • RE: X in Technology

    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...

  • RE: The Worst Code

    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:

  • RE: Byte Me: Vendor Problems

    We've just renamed all our alleged coffee/tea/hot chocolate to "brown", as in "I'll have a cup of brown".

  • RE: The Worst Code

    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...

  • RE: The Worst Code

    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...

  • RE: Is Rolling Back The Same as Failing?

    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...

  • RE: Geeky Entertainment

    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...

  • RE: Lawsuits and Data Breaches

    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...

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