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I've been to paid for conferences that weren't worthy to hold a candle to the free Saturday SQLBits events. The enthusiasm and time that is put into these events...
February 11, 2015 at 1:39 pm
Ever come back from leave to find that the absolutely imperative world stopping problem your leave would create seems not to have happened?
The danger of believing you are not young...
February 9, 2015 at 1:30 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/2/2015)[hrI think you'd be surprised at this.
Absolutely gobsmacked!
In development I can understand it if it is part of a learning exercise.
In production...
February 5, 2015 at 3:01 pm
Maximum effectiveness in minimum effort.....simplest.....
If you look at well designed well implemented code it looks simple. You'd wonder why it took so long to deliver.
If you try and develop...
February 4, 2015 at 8:22 am
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...
January 31, 2015 at 12:23 pm
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...
January 30, 2015 at 9:43 am
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...
January 26, 2015 at 6:23 am
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.
January 24, 2015 at 5:59 am
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...
January 22, 2015 at 6:52 am
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...
January 19, 2015 at 3:33 pm
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....
January 15, 2015 at 12:15 pm
From what I've read AWS EMR is an implementation of MapR
January 13, 2015 at 12:33 pm
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...
January 12, 2015 at 2:24 pm
Eric, you've reminded me of a good point. There seem to be five key Hadoop distributions.
Cloudera = open source with Cloudera Navigator, Manager and Director...
January 11, 2015 at 6:32 am
BYOD or Choose Your Own Device taking off. Serious thought going into legitimate synchronisation between private and company devices.
More automation but staff doing more and possibly different things.
SQL2015 delayed but...
January 2, 2015 at 4:33 am
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