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I see companies get increasingly interested in BYOD (Bring your own device).
There are a number of senior business execs who like the portability of iPads and the ability to intersperse...
August 31, 2012 at 10:41 am
I don't have a problem with either approach but problems comes when there is overlap between the two.
In effect you end up with Central and Shadow operating as if they...
August 29, 2012 at 4:37 pm
cdonlan 18448 (8/20/2012)
I can't imagine any sane bank, insurance company, or trading house putting a transaction system in the Cloud.
Chances are the system that does your salary cheque is...
August 20, 2012 at 12:21 pm
j_e_o (8/10/2012)
Quite frankly, in my experience with agile techniques, particularly SCRUM, the methodology negates most conflicts regardless of titles or roles.
Yes it does, but getting the culture of the business...
August 11, 2012 at 1:54 am
I recommend that you read "5 dysfunctions of teams" which covers the topic of honesty, trust, ego, results and conflict.
When I was a lead DBA I always gave my code...
August 10, 2012 at 1:29 am
My supervisor told me "I can find anyone to do your job." when I asked for a promotion.
Anyone who has had to be part of the recruitment process knows...
August 2, 2012 at 4:12 pm
So SET STATISTICS TIME ON is the sames as WATCH SCHRODINGERS CAT:hehe:
I learnt something from this article.
Note that STATISTICS TIME ON reports the execution time and the CPU time where...
August 1, 2012 at 3:55 pm
I've had many bosses, good and bad, over the years and with only one exception they were people I would not object to spending an evening in their company.
The bad...
August 1, 2012 at 12:08 pm
What is interesting is reading the LinkedIn profile of previous "bad" managers. Their perception of themselves appears radically different from the way their underlings remember them.
Has anyone suggested to...
July 31, 2012 at 12:57 pm
BTW, did you mean that solutions like FastTrack work in "symphony" with hardware, not "sympathy" ??
Br, Mark Kromer
Sorry, a Freudian slip. Though having seen FastTrack perform its worth a...
July 24, 2012 at 10:00 am
RobertYoung (7/16/2012)
Missing, not for the first time in such essays, is discussion of normal forms,
Would I be correct in thinking this translates as "design your OLTP database properly and you...
July 16, 2012 at 4:30 pm
I have to say that I find the ability to resync my Kindle invaluable. Most of the stuff I want to do in the cloud is light-weight consumer stuff...
July 8, 2012 at 10:27 am
Although I started out as an Analyst/Programmer on an HP3000 mini-computer my route to becoming a DBA started when I joined a B2B direct mail house.
As someone with Aspergers the...
July 8, 2012 at 10:24 am
The cloud will eventually mature.
At present I think of it as Pay-As-You-Go computing. If you have a facility that you need regularly or occassionaly but not all the time...
July 5, 2012 at 1:41 am
I wonder if The Royal Bank of Scotland have re-evalutated any of their IT capabilities recently
:hehe:
July 1, 2012 at 3:53 am
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