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  • RE: Finding a Balance

    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...

  • RE: Shadow IT

    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...

  • RE: The Influence of the Cloud

    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...

  • RE: Code Reviews Must Be Brutally Honest

    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...

  • RE: Code Reviews Must Be Brutally Honest

    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...

  • RE: Better Bosses Needed

    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...

  • RE: How to Make Scalar UDFs Run Faster (SQL Spackle)

    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...

  • RE: Better Bosses Needed

    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...

  • RE: Better Bosses Needed

    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...

  • RE: Storage - A meeting of minds

    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...

  • RE: Storage - A meeting of minds

    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...

  • RE: Clouds, Costs, and Data Analytics

    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...

  • RE: It's the Journey...

    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...

  • RE: Clouds, Costs, and Data Analytics

    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...

  • RE: The High Availability Poll

    I wonder if The Royal Bank of Scotland have re-evalutated any of their IT capabilities recently

    • HA/DR
    • back up/recovery
    • Implementation/Rollback

    :hehe:

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