I'd say architect your solution for failure. If you design for cloud then you know you have to design for failure because it is a fact of life.

SSDs are...

Apparently Apple don't sell many iPhones compared to Samsung but Apple are streets ahead in terms of making money out of mobile phones.

There are a lot of companies that are...

Cross pollination of ideas is essential. There is a lot to learn from the ORACLE camp.

Oracle DBAs tend to be at the upper end of the DBA scale in...

Have a good read of https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page

There is a very real skill in being able to articulate your point of view in a way that the other person understands it.

Is it that they don't understand your...

Boy do I know it! What is...

Not only are SQL Injection attacks still going on but also cross site scripting, response splitting and other nasties.

Let us suppose that your code is SQL Injection attack proof. ...

We use it for proof-of-concept stuff because the costs of spinning up hardware, storage etc just for a test is prohibitive. As much of what we do requires large...

I've actively shooed spectators away from my colleagues desks during a difficult deployment.

You...stay I need you to do this.

You....stay I need you to do that.

The rest of you, I will...

I know a lot of good folks looked at that and, having worked with Adjacency Lists where both the child and parent IDs are numeric, might wonder why you even...

@jeff, it sounds as if you should write a counterpoint article for EAV.

Streaming stuff into an EAV has never been a problem, its the use cases for getting it out...

@jeff What sort of size, scale and traffic are you putting through your EAV models?

Don't forget that 64bit removes the limit on the size of the proc cache. Under 32bit SQL proc cache was limited to 2GB so it would never munch its...

OK, to summarise all this.