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  • RE: Running as SysAdmin

    It's interesting reading this a few years on.

    I've come to realise that so many things stem from a businesses desire to move faster than IT can keep pace and the...

  • RE: Are We Suckers?

    In short when it is perceived as mutually beneficial there are no complaints on either side.

    For the extra hours I put in I gained knowledge, the satisfaction of solving challenging...

  • RE: Are We Suckers?

    Render unto Caesar!

    I have often gone the extra mile because I knew that my employer would reciprocate.

    It was either time off in lieu, beer and pizza or something that said...

  • RE: The Machines are Learning

    The trick is in training the system in the first place. I remember playing with a package called 4Thought back in the 1990s. I think you have to...

  • RE: Security Decisions

    Wayne West (12/14/2015)


    VTech had NO SSL on their site: aside from the ease of sucking everything through SQL Injection, you could also simply listen to their network traffic.

    ......:angry:...

  • RE: Security Decisions

    Sadly it is on the job training at best.

    When Windows was riddled with buffer overrun vulnerabilities I hunted high and low for a good article on "how not to write...

  • RE: How Much Eventual Consistency Do You Have?

    I feel that we tend to use a one size fits all approach with little regard to actual business need.

    Billing systems have to be accurate. Marketing systems can work...

  • RE: How Much Eventual Consistency Do You Have?

    Given that data is committed in an operational system and that commitment process plays no part in the confirmation of delivery to the reporting process I'd say that eventual consistency...

  • RE: IT Data Governance and the Insider Job

    This puts me on the horns of a dilemma.

    On one hand I want my system to be secure, but on the other hand I want to do stuff with it.

    Terry...

  • RE: Gratitude

    phonetictalk (12/4/2015)


    David.Poole (12/4/2015)


    Parity percentage is something that HR departments moan about and an obsession in some circles but if women don't apply in the first place then there is damn...

  • RE: Gratitude

    At one of the SQL Bits conferences the topic of women in IT was a specific session.

    I'm struggling to recall if, throughout my career, the number of women even applying...

  • 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

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