I can't pretend to know vast amounts about replication but a group of us spent a lot of time working out how it worked, how to diagnose and rectify faults,...

I'm a little hazy on the huge cost detraction. To an individual the size of the hardware and software licencing may look huge. To a company that setup...

Amazon don't allow SA access to RDS instances. If you are planning to query an instance over the Internet I'd expect VPN access and SQL Server in a ...

I'm in my early 50s, just getting back to working full-time in IT after separating from my husband. I have 2 big black "X"s already. I'm over 50...

There is a Terry Pratchett Quote where a character was complaining about juvenile delinquency before being skewered on some of the things they used to do when they were young....

My personal favourite was the guy who was asked why he was retrieving every record from a table and then filtering within the application. Using a WHERE clause was...

brannanliz (3/23/2016)

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Yes, yes it is and management often has an abundance. I agree I want to know the data is backed up and that it...

Don't get me started on this fetish.

Outsource your liabilities

Onboard your...

I see a recurring theme in business acquisition of technology and in the attitude to data disciplines.

21 years ago Amazon started and seemingly overnight we could order stuff in the...

You get some good ones and some that cause dark mutterings for years after.

One had the brass neck to ask me for a LinkedIn recommendation after I'd been through a...

I'm trying to think of productive meetings

1. Cigarette break. You find out what is really going on in the company and will probably meet people from both ends...

Andy Warren (3/21/2016)

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Dean/David. It's fair to say not all meetings are effective. On a good day that's a teaching opportunity, on a bad day it's just something to be endured....

If you are going to insist on punctuality of start then I'm going to insist on punctuality of the end, a clear objective to the meeting and an agenda. ...

Oh the joy of a receiving a notification that an issue has been closed only to find that it was tested in a parallel universe where bugs don't exist, users...

Understanding is different to knowing. As the old saying goes, a child doesn't understand a hammer.

I thought owning a tablet would allow me to read and research far more....