Eric M Russell (1/21/2013)

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Customer contact information is an example of where an entity-attribute-value model makes sense. The design is simple, efficient, and can be easily extended to support any type...

Apparently if you could send an iPad2 back to 1997 it would be the 7th most powerful computer on earth.

My first computer was a Commodore Vic20 with 3.5K RAM and...

I'm another one who agrees with JimBob.

I got excited about external activiation but this is service broker talking to an external app, not an external app talking to service broker.

There...

I think that vendors should react faster when a vulnerability is identified. Putting it on the some-time-maybe-never inclusion in the next release simply isn't good enough.

Similarly it would be...

Given that audit logs are not read frequently I feel we need to consider where the appropriate place is to store audit logs.

Clearly they need to be secure so they...

I initially thought Big Data was a "so what" but then had an epiphany.

Big Data is not an IT term, it is a business term and as such it is...

Forgot to mention that pre SQL2012 putting TempDB on local storage in a cluster was possible but definitely not supported or recommended by Microsoft.

The thing with traditional HDDs is that not all the space is usable due to the need for multiple spindles to deliver throughput so it isn't as simple a case...

In the past I've known a brief hacking attack to result in a DBA to be dedicated full-time for two weeks solid to clean up the mess and that was...

I predict a big shake-up in both Microsoft and Apple.

A few big data breaches caused by weaknesses in agile approaches.

Western democracies suddenly realising the value of local manufacturing...

It is interesting seeing these old posts from a viewpoint 4 years on.

The Big Data phenomenum is really putting a value on data and therefore data loss. In the...

At one point one of our old 32bit SQL2000 clusters were getting through 8,000+ batch requests/sec regularly at peak.

Different lines of business have different busy periods both seasonally and weekly...

I've been to a few presentations on DQS and to be honest it looks like a version 1.0 product. It seems to be a question of shifting your data...

I to am being pestered to take the kids to see The Hobbit!

I suspect that,...

I've been experimenting with black boxes in cars. These plug into the small scart type socked under the steering wheel.

In my car an over-revving problem has simply gone away...