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Rich Mechaber (2/9/2016)
David.Poole (2/9/2016)
Data is like fissile material. Once it gains critical...
February 9, 2016 at 1:32 pm
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...
February 9, 2016 at 7:17 am
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...
February 9, 2016 at 7:06 am
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...
February 8, 2016 at 2:33 pm
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...
February 4, 2016 at 1:16 pm
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...
February 3, 2016 at 7:34 am
Beatrix Kiddo (1/29/2016)
Eric M Russell (1/28/2016)
January 30, 2016 at 12:30 am
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...
January 29, 2016 at 1:18 pm
A good vulnerability test company will rip holes in anything with a weakness.
The level my team has to deal with is considering vulnerabilities in cloud hypervisors and steps...
January 29, 2016 at 11:35 am
Gary Varga (1/28/2016)
January 28, 2016 at 3:15 pm
Curious what constitutes a suspicious gap, and does this apply when looking for contractors? What about a contractor looking for a permanent position now?
Very short employment periods, lots of...
January 28, 2016 at 9:01 am
It's migration per se. Could be for the purposes of absorption into the data warehouse or to replace the legacy system.
The overarching idea is to gain knowledge of the...
January 27, 2016 at 2:16 pm
I've got at least 2 jobs on the strength of people coming across articles on SQLServerCentral.
It's always worth cultivating contacts. It's a small world out there and contractors are...
January 27, 2016 at 12:54 pm
g.britton (1/27/2016)
You didn't mention the Integration Services Data Profiling task (AFAICS).
Good suggestion. Why not submit an article on the use of Data Profiler?
I've not used the SSIS...
January 27, 2016 at 12:14 pm
Row counts are in the tables created in the Validate schema.
For approximate row counts on tables the safety check query uses the SYS.partitions system view. This relies on statistics...
January 27, 2016 at 12:03 am
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