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Too much detail dilutes management effectiveness.
If you are a detail person and a manager then it is too easy to get sucked into detailed technical debates rather than stepping back...
November 29, 2012 at 9:12 am
Jeff Moden (11/28/2012)
I can't help moving furniture. I'm old and it just happens every time I have a bout with gas. 😛
I know a story about a lady who...
November 29, 2012 at 8:50 am
Its amazing what happens if you wave the possiblity of nuking old dead systems in front of a DBA. Their wrinkles vanish, an unfamiliar expression (happy smile) crosses there...
November 28, 2012 at 9:17 am
Regulation is a cloud that can have a bright silver lining.
Lets suppose that you have old systems ridden with tech debt and propped up by manual processes.
Those powers that be...
November 28, 2012 at 1:27 am
My concern regarding data quality is largely that it is absent.
The solution compiles, tests run, the users like the UI, job done. The reporting/BI aspect is someone elses problem.
Only...
November 21, 2012 at 11:54 am
Darren Wallace (11/20/2012)
Ultimately any task where you care more about high speed and low cost than you do about consistency is a great candidate for NoSQL.
Anyone have a view on...
November 21, 2012 at 1:29 am
Search is one of those things where you'd expect an RDBMS to be much stronger than it actually is. Any form of data repository is only as good as...
November 20, 2012 at 1:40 am
Revenant (11/16/2012)
I agree, but numbers that David quotes are at least 10 times higher than what I hear from our ops.
Our ops guys flex the quote depending on the IO/throughput/access...
November 18, 2012 at 10:03 am
Very much so.
The cost of storage influences the following:-
Timescales for development i.e. lead team for the...
November 16, 2012 at 1:24 am
You could try executing sys.sp_enum_oledb_providers
October 26, 2012 at 2:25 am
They seem to forget that if you want something real bad, you'll normally get it that way.
I'll be using that comment a few times I think.
I think IT...
October 22, 2012 at 1:19 am
CFO "what happens if we pay for training and they leave"?
CTO "what happens if we don't pay and they stay"?
October 19, 2012 at 1:31 am
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...
October 16, 2012 at 1:56 am
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...
October 10, 2012 at 1:37 am
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...
October 4, 2012 at 1:37 am
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