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  • RE: The Reorg

    Jeff Moden (7/14/2013)


    What I'd like to see is for MS to get back to some grass roots programming to make T-SQL what it should/could be. For example, fix Bulk...

  • RE: When Is Work, Work?

    geoffrey.sturdy (6/26/2013)


    This must be a very American attitude

    I suspect its a Northern England attitude. In the interests of maintaining a 558 year cease fire I won't mention the...

  • RE: When Is Work, Work?

    Richard Warr (6/25/2013)


    geoffrey.sturdy (6/25/2013)


    "It's also a young person's game. Once you have a family, not sure you can make those trade offs and feel good about it. "

    Sorry - but...

  • RE: More Data Security Issues

    Its a sad fact that a percentage of any population will be morally challenged.

    Another percentage will be opportunistic. If you had a piece of software and a licence key...

  • RE: When Is Work, Work?

    Question Guy (6/24/2013)


    As I like to say, make your job what you want it to be. I want it to be 40 hours or so, therefore it is. ...

  • RE: SQL Server Should Work for Us

    If you make the toolset good enough then SQL Server becomes that can be cradle to grave.

    It can cope with numpties but in the hands of a master it can...

  • RE: SQL Server Should Work for Us

    Bring back Project Barcelona!

  • RE: The Five Year Plan

    Gary Varga (6/13/2013)


    David.Poole (6/13/2013)


    In short, IT will still exist in 5 years time, 25% will have gone, 50% will stay the same, 25% will be brand new and unimagined today.

    I...

  • RE: The Five Year Plan

    I see the role of internal infrastructure guys changing radically. Some aspect of their work vanishing completely but other aspects, particularly surrounding security and monitoring getting much more emphasis.

    Technological...

  • RE: When Windows don’t provide illumination

    I found I quite liked HeidiSQL, the GUI that ships with MariaDB. It echos the commands that the GUI performs including those that are used by the GUI itself...

  • RE: Quickly Copy Data

    Jeff Moden (6/6/2013)


    After the systems were down, I made a tape backup and FedEx'd it. We had everything back up and online with nearly half a day to spare.

    Just...

  • RE: A Beginners Look at Hadoop

    stephen.lloyd 63174 (6/6/2013)


    I agree that Hadoop should not be used as a replacement for a data warehouse. It does seem to be getting some use as a staging environment...

  • RE: A Beginners Look at Hadoop

    gclausen (6/5/2013)


    Great article!! Do you think it is worth learning a little bit of Java for this?

    I feel it is always useful to have at least one non-SQL development language...

  • RE: A Beginners Look at Hadoop

    Out of curiousity, did you also evaluate Mongo and are you planning one of these for that as well?

    I haven't evaluated MongoDB as yet. I am more likely to...

  • RE: Quickly Copy Data

    I get frustrated with the "use this free tool" approach. I'd pay for a tool that offered reliably high lossless compression capability.

    The other point I'd make is that people...

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