I liked Buck Woody's definition of data.  Apologies to Buck if I get it wrong "Big data is data you struggle to process in time with the technology you have...

Obviously if an admin account gets hacked you are in serious trouble.  They are seen as an obvious target by people trying to protect systems.  So much so that other...

Almost everything my company does is in containers.  Our DB is a distributed column store called Vertica. It has not been designed as a single machine DB though Microfocus staff...

From a data stand point I see microservices causing as many problems as they solve. The idea of having a neatly encapsulated application and data store that does one thing...

I seem to remember someone on this site saying that when we leave an organisation it's like someone pulling a stick out of a bucket of water. Organisations have a...

Fun coming back to this in the era of Meow and Ransomware.  The Garmin incident was a highly visible indication of what malign intent can do.

We've known how to build...

I've got a works MacBook Pro.  The problem I have now is that while the laptop is ultra portable the monitor I use isn't.

I must investigate screen casting. At present...

I don't think many people miss the commute. My car is getting more than a fortnight to the gallon at the moment with all the cost savings that brings. As...

Seems like the ISO5218 was thinking ahead.

One of the most interesting Twitter threads I've seen was from someone who said they were in an airport, delayed, slightly tipsy, bored and...

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I work from what used to be my sons bedroom.  I don't go in that room at the weekend.

The bit I found hardest is when the natural breaks don't occur. ...

If you read Fred P Brooks he cites a colleagues belief in small iterative deliverables rather than big bang projects. I remember thinking that sounded like one of the approaches...

Are you talking about hacking the VM from the physical host?

At a previous place of work we looked at whether storage used by one VM could be accessible unintentionally after...

As a FoRG I've had some interesting calls with the Data Catalog team.  The RedGate Data Catalog will pick up these values from the database as well as supporting many...

In my case I...

A couple of colleagues and I have been pushing automated data testing and deployment testing techniques and local workstation builds.  We've been equally amazed and dismayed at the lack...