Flag waving and fireworks on July 4 is perfectly fine. However, it should also be a time for us to reflect on where we stand on keeping the nation unified...

Actually, time was never really frozen for me personally during the pandemic in 2020. Yes, I minimized my face to face interaction with people outside my household, but it was...

Where I work, we have a customer support call center application and also a mobile app where customers can login and look at their account info and payment history. Initially,...

In the realm of politics, statistics are just lies expressed in numbers and colors.

It's good to see AI and Big Data applied to something useful in terms of societal impact - rather than the usual marketing and political applications. Something else that would...

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In an interview, should you give the right answer or the one expected by Oracle? If the interviewer doesn't understand why Oracle are wrong - perhaps you don't want...

Heh... so a DBA doesn't need to know what a Clustered Index is???

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You have to ask advanced people the simple stuff first or your going to hire an idiot. ...

I'd just like to point out that some of the greatest inventions in IT history were started by a couple of people - who were supposed to be working on...

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That "dog mode" feature is interesting, but even then I don't think it will necessarily prevent your vehicle from attracting unnecessary attention. I have tethered my dog to a shaded...

There are privacy focused browsers now that will route your traffic through a VPN and also will clean cookies as soon as you navigate to a different website.

At least now they're now telling you what they plan to do with your data - assuming you choose to continue using the service.

While organizations must take steps to protect their data from external threat actors, they must also not overlook internal privileged actors. For example, we've probably all heard about the Joel Greenberg...

"..Getting everyone in a region together a few times a year is a really interesting idea. It will feel like a SQL Saturday or other event when you know everyone...

That is a very good point, Eric. I like that approach. I suspect that for the near future (<= 5 years) it might be best to do that...

A good feature to compliment Always Encrypted.