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  • 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

  • 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...

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