Andy, it's not just that it is an expense it's whose expense it is.

The instant it becomes and IT expense non-IT loses interest. If IT identifies the problem and...

There used to be a bug in the cluster install of SQL2008R2 that set the collation for the server incorrectly no matter what you specified. I'm not sure if...

In my world buy vs build raises the question of who integrates the solutions and what is required to enable that to happen.

If you build it then could you sell...

It depends what your base knowledge is and whether you understand the fundamental principles.

If you don't understand the principles you will be learning by rote and unless you are one...

There are so many NOSQL solutions that it is easier to say what NODQL is not than what it is.

As a data architect one of my great frustrations was solutions...

Jeff Moden (1/2/2016)

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Perhaps it's time to start listening when a person gets to the point of citing incompetence of others because they only get to that point after they've given...

Nearly finished my solution to this. Turns out to be far more involved and have loads of gotchas than a casual approach would reveal.

TomThomson (12/31/2015)

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I find I can work a long week without getting tired, but can't do it every week. The idea that one becomes tired and incompetent after one fifty...

TomThomson (12/30/2015)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/12/2015)

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a fundamental broken concept of information technology is the lack of security practices and architectures being built into our platforms and applications from the...

It's quite tricky recruiting for...

Has change ever gone away?

I work in an environment with a heavy dependence on contract resource. How do you transfer the domain knowledge to the contract resource in order...

I wish this wasn't an April Fool.

Microsoft does a lot more with the open-source community than it is credited with so I still have hope

Ivanova (12/21/2015)

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Slightly off-topic; while working for a large financial institution, I was approached by one of the security team. He was a highly-paid and allegedly very security-savvy contractor. His request...

What is really sad is that if you sit down with a business person and listen (really, really listen) to what they are trying to do

a. They are grateful...

I could believe most of it, even the bit about people listening but not the bit about people acting.

Someone at a senior level chose that software and they won't thank...