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  • RE: The Dangers of Algorithms

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/1/2016)


    David.Poole (2/29/2016)


    If I bought Eddie Van Halen's guitar it wouldn't make me a great guitar player.

    Are you sure? Have you tried?

    I haven't got the passion...

  • RE: The Dangers of Algorithms

    If I bought Eddie Van Halen's guitar it wouldn't make me a great guitar player.

    A great programmer can come up with something amazing on surprisingly limited kit where as a...

  • RE: Interesting Data Centers

    Safe harbour regulations are undergoing scrutiny at present.

    There are quite a few businesses that thought the fact that business is ahead of regulations would mean that the legal aspect would...

  • RE: Forcing Strong Passwords

    So what are your views on Apple resisting the FBI'S request to unlock that iPhone?

    Just so my colours are nailed to the mast I'm against the phone being cracked.

    Once a...

  • RE: A Good Use for Hadoop

    We experimented with Hadoop to build a personalised product sort order.

    5million customers x 250k product variations produced a huge dataset.

    We had an impressive poc, and were experimenting with Apache Spark...

  • RE: Data for Ransom

    My 6 year old niece managed to download some ransomware onto her mother's tablet in an app aimed at children. That's just vile.

    Going after hospital records is beyond the...

  • RE: Interesting Data Centers

    Cost, but it isn't straight forward to quantify what it is.

    The benefit of being able to spin up equivalent environmentsand to do so quickly more than pays for the cost...

  • RE: Forcing Strong Passwords

    I've found that Google Authenticator is practical for authenticating onto AWS.

    I wish I hadn't put a strong password on my phone. The number of times I've wanted to use...

  • RE: Zero Downtime for 2016

    You are only as strong as your weakest component.

    If you want zero downtime then your components have to support that. To an extent you can engineer around some limitations.

    There...

  • RE: Improving Performance for Some LIKE “%string%” Searches (SQL Spackle)

    As usual the simple ideas are the best. Good article.

    From the forum comments I notice that the different versions of SQL give different results thereby illustrating that the SQL...

  • RE: Foreign Key Indexes and Binding

    powell_todd (2/10/2016)


    Nice article, and I always love to get scripts that help me understand whether or not I'm doing the right thing in my DBs. One question/point... In...

  • RE: The Digital Woes of Public Records

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/9/2016)


    I'd still disagree. There are more and more tools available that allow small groups and organizations to do lots with data.

    Moneysupermarket started off in a...

  • RE: The Digital Woes of Public Records

    Rich Mechaber (2/9/2016)


    David.Poole (2/9/2016)


    I heard a story that an analysis of coin composition revealed the state of a nation's armament capability.

    Data is like fissile material. Once it gains critical...

  • RE: Culture and Performance

    If you work in IT the chances are that you are above average intelligence.

    If you have an IT department of 100 people then that is 100 above average brains that...

  • RE: The Digital Woes of Public Records

    I heard a story that an analysis of coin composition revealed the state of a nation's armament capability.

    Data is like fissile material. Once it gains critical mass it's a...

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