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  • Reply To: The Nightmare Letter

    "With the focus on privacy in the media, and the mishandling of data regularly by companies, I wouldn't be surprised if there are going to be large numbers of requests...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Production Subsets

    Rubrik, the backup solution we use, allows us to live mount a SQL Server database from backup, which is great for QA testing. Redgate has something similar.

    But the good thing...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: It's Not Yours

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    Heh... ok... here's another thought.  If you don't think you own the data (not like the guy in the story Steve related), let something happen to it and find...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: The General Database Platform

    There are NoSQL databases out there that specialize in doing stuff like: serving high volume JSON document reads (CosmosDB / MongoDB), data warehousing (Snowflake, Azure Synapse), graph querying, website caching...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: The Future of Certifications

    A certification doesn't imply a high level of expertise - only a certain baseline of competence as it applies to a specific area. For example, a "certified BMW mechanic" is...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Crazy Interview Questions

    Here is a good one. Not only does it reveal a lot of the candidate's experience and problem solving skills, but it can lead to an even more revealing back...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Testing or Learning

    Whether it feels like a failed experiment or a personal failure has a lot to do with who else observed it. I think it's the nature of IT folks to...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Executing Notebooks in a Stored Procedure

    Next April 1, tell us how to e-file our taxes from a stored procedure.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: My Favorite Data Platform Feature

    Not only is provisioning databases in Azure quick and simple, but billing and scaling in terms of DTU and RU/s is such a game changer that organization who are still...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: How do you secure sensitive data in a modern Data Warehouse?

    Securing data in a warehouse is an often overlooked topic. Rather than granting wholesale access of tables to an entire IT department, group level permissions should be based on functional...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: The Level of Security These Days

    david.edwards 76768 wrote:

    I like that chart Jeff, I might add it to my favourite argument I trot out every time I am faced with a short password requirement that forces numbers,...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: The Level of Security These Days

    Regarding best practice for password complexity: it depends on whether it's only used only for authentication (ie: Netflix) - or if it's leveraged for symmetric key encryption and there is...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Easily Repeating Work

    So, we maintain a collection of PowerShell modules in a shared Git repository for performing operational tasks like failing over an AOG node, starting/stopping traces, or enabling/disabling features. PowerShell is...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: The Level of Security These Days

    I think it's a TV trope that a clever hacker can somehow guess your password or brute force it with a script. What's really going on is that folks re-use...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Is CosmosDB the One?

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    larry.blake wrote:

    About Fusion restaurants: it's pretty rare for them to do everything (or even most things) at a master chef level.

    I've never worked with CosmosDB, so I don't speak...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

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