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  • 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...

  • RE: SQL, and Ye Shall Find

    The frustration for me is that people start wailing that an RDBMS does not do web scale with very little idea of what that actually means in their context.

    Then there...

  • RE: The New Operating System

    There is a difference between management and leadership. I know senior managers who I wouldn't follow out of a burning building.

    I've known leaders that I would follow into one.

    I've...

  • RE: Queues in Databases

    When all I had was msmq I used a simple DB design to give a persistent ordered queue.

    It worked, was efficient and didn't increase the technology footprint.

    These days tech such...

  • RE: Crafting Your Resume

    Beatrix Kiddo (1/29/2016)


    Eric M Russell (1/28/2016)


    At risk of revealing too much, I think I'm in this position right now, and wondering how on earth to get out of it without...

  • RE: Too much information can be counter-productive

    Eric M Russell (1/29/2016)


    This reminds me of those two or three occasions, as a teenager, when I would return home with damage to my dad's car.

    Good news Dad, your...

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