You could try executing sys.sp_enum_oledb_providers

I'll be using that comment a few times I think.

I think IT...

CFO "what happens if we pay for training and they leave"?

CTO "what happens if we don't pay and they stay"?

I've been playing with Hadoop both locally and in AWS and although a newbie to it I've had a few reality checks with it.

Firstly, it is still in the early...

When I wrote The danger in hiring stars[/url] it became apparent to me that a "star" employee exists within an whole ecosystem.

If you take the star out of that ecosystem...

Its funny looking back at a debate 5 years ago and seeing what has changed (very little). If you saw this first time around chances are your company has...

In the UK employment law prevents an NCA restricting a person's employability.

My NCA and employment contract says that I cannot work for a competitor in the specific line of business...

I had a long discussion with a tech lead regarding pair programming and productivity. There is an aspect of you can't change a thing but you can change your...

I think NoSQL is a new name for a much older concept.

In fact I think...

Moon landing 1969

IBM PC 1981

I'm not sure if they even had 8bit processors back in 1969. I...

This is where distributed computing comes in. If the mountain won't come to Mohammed then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

One of the examples given for "Big Data" was...

Some how we have to get to a meeting of minds. I know what I consider documentation and I have consistently said that if I am called up at...

My kids have reached the age where I can go out for a night on the town every now and again and I've found it a culture shock.

The behaviour of...

CI is a God send in a large development shop where you will have a team of developers working on something.

The idea is that a check-in to the source control...