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  • RE: No Handwaving Away the DBA

    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...

  • RE: Managers

    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...

  • RE: Better, Faster, and Cheaper

    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...

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    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...

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    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...

  • RE: Oiling the gears for the data dictionary

    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...

  • RE: One Database to Rule Them All

    Unsupervised digital landfill

  • RE: Good Practices for Software Development

    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...

  • RE: Big Data - Cost of acquiring skills

    Doctor Who 2 (4/18/2014)


    I didn't know that SQL Server Developer Edition was something that one could purchase at a reduced rate. You gave the cost in British pounds - what's...

  • RE: One Database to Rule Them All

    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...

  • RE: One Database to Rule Them All

    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...

  • 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...

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