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  • RE: Early Adopters

    Errrrmmmm, but Linux has its basis in Unix has a number of text processing utilities that can pipe their output into each other. Sed, awk, tr, wc, split, join....

  • RE: The Biggest Data Breech (For Now)

    It would help if businesses invested in training their staff.

    When I was a DBA I knew how to secure SQL Server but I knew nothing about network security and the...

  • RE: Getting ready for Hadoop

    maciej.skrzos (11/24/2015)


    Great article Dave, thanks!

    I've also done some research on Hadoop recently. I noticed new trend among Big Data Engineers - replacing Hadoop with Spark. I can't find reliable...

  • RE: Technical Debt

    I had an interesting conversation with a senior director on this subject and captured his thoughts on this

    https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/technical-debt-and-the-cultural-gap/%5B/url%5D

  • RE: Shrinking the Budget

    I know of a case where support for a system was outsourced. Ran fine for years...until it didn't.

    All of a sudden it became apparent that the outsource resource no-longer...

  • RE: Early Adopters

    If you are talking about early adoption of the latest version of SQL Server then having a comprehensive set of functional and non-functional tests will mitigate those risks.

    If you are...

  • RE: Early Adopters

    Problem is with companies like mine, that's good for the team and not good for the business. Needs to be both to succeed in their eyes.

    Yes but if you start...

  • RE: Early Adopters

    I'm finding that as an early adopter that there are an awful lot of people who claim they are doing something but when they are scrutinised its all smoke and...

  • RE: Early Adopters

    Someone has to be the early adopter. Today's so what was yesterday's OMG.

    Business is about calculated risks and a bit of a gamble. Low cost experimentation has to...

  • RE: Shrinking the Budget

    If you want to save serious money in a large organisation forget the the technology. Look to the various business processes and strange behaviours that are accepted as the...

  • RE: Shrinking the Budget

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/19/2015)


    Good note, but I wouldn't disparage someone as an actor meaning they have no knowledge. A certain former guitar player from Queen is a PhD...

  • RE: Rogue Software Changes

    Ian Scarlett (11/16/2015)


    Maybe not quite as bad as the VW situation, but Peugeot were caught a few years ago manipulating the odometer on vehicles. Every so often, it would...

  • RE: Rogue Software Changes

    I still haven't seen anything that says the other manufacturers aren't doing it. If anything VW are cleaner than the average.

    I can imagine a senior manager insisting that system...

  • RE: Do You Have Scary Code?

    Jeff Moden (11/10/2015)

    It does, indeed. It sounds like it could become a full time job just keeping such tests up to date almost as if it were an application...

  • RE: Do You Have Scary Code?

    I've done a fair bit of software archaeology and what I have found is that quick fixes are built upon quick fixes. This isn't to imply that this is...

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