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  • RE: Data Loss or Downtime

    I strongly suspect that in the event of a DR scenario the business would find out that certain non-critical systems were actually far more important than they realised.

    The question I...

  • RE: Is the Golden Age of Information Technology Almost Over?

    If you go down the as a service route the skills balance changes to those whose speciality is software integration.

    If you outsource then you will need project management and tech...

  • RE: I Feel Like a Magician

    Microsoft, your product is mature, it is time to start sweating the small stuff

  • RE: I Feel Like a Magician

    I used to work in an advertising agency and the received wisdom was that customers were creatures of habit. Your activities were to make sure that customers didn't lose the...

  • RE: Soundex - Experiments with SQLCLR Part 2

    Thanks go to Solomon Rutzky for his help peer reviewing this article. The use of SqlString isn't quite right which is my fault as are any other errors you may...

  • RE: SSMS Maturity

    Try Aquafold Data Studio. Well worth the money in my opinion.

    It's a database IDE for !multiple dB platforms plus erd capabilities plus SSH shell plus snippets plus NoSQL support...

  • RE: Training Computer Scientists

    Looking at the comment that the industry isn't mature the march of technology is such that some techniques that were put forward as being best practise are not totally obsolete....

  • RE: Not a cloud to be seen

    I think people have very little concept of how much 2TB is or how fast 2.4Ghz is. One fusion-io card can cope with a phenomenal amount of io.

    They've bought the...

  • RE: Exit Lines

    I know someone who was disappointed to get a Survey Monkey exit interview. The gist of the survey was as to whether the company was good, outstanding or exceptional...

  • RE: Skill Supply and Demand

    @jeff you have triggered post traumatic stress!

    I too have suffered a load process that took 10 minutes to loai 3000 records.

    What hurt was that I used SSIS to...

  • RE: Skill Supply and Demand

    The trick is to pick the winners. The problem is identifying them.

    There are hundreds if not thousands of NOSQL solutions. What is it that allows one to succeed and...

  • RE: Skill Supply and Demand

    In terms of building a mechanically working data store within a NOSQL store my experience is that it is actually easier. The more difficult ones are those that have...

  • RE: Does It Count?

    From a business perspective down time is down time. They may begrudgingly accept that some planned down time is necessary but it will be remembered and used when explaining...

  • RE: Culture Clashes and Arrogance

    sql Sarah (6/17/2015)


    Welcome to my world!! I work in a highly regulated industry. There is so much paperwork and red tape that a 10 minute change takes 3 hours...

  • RE: Archive Every Day

    I've got a slightly bigger problem. How to archive a Teradata appliance.

    The solution I've gone with is Hadoop. It ain't cheap but it is cheaper than having to...

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