x 45204 (1/8/2015)

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Hey

First time here, but have been enjoying the articles for some time now on this site.

But got a query question - I am trying to make a query...

The good news is that Verizon cloud services isn't very popular, so the outage should impact only a small percentage of it's customers. 🙂

suppiunna (12/31/2014)

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Hi,

We are using .net application which is hitting the database using SA Account.. I am looking for any alternative to SA Account like whether can I use groups or...

I think that the majority of people are not entirely forthcoming, in significant ways, when they submit healthcare assessments. That also applies to employee surveys, political polls, customer reviews, and...

Andy Warren (1/5/2015)

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Matt, wellness plans are an interesting example, and one that bothers me more. Retention (or firing) is part of what a company does to succeed, I can see...

This is similar to something HP has done, trying to predict if employees might leave and intervene to see if something can be done. I heard an interview with the...

Yes, we're all familiar with the deployment or upgrade that stole Christmas. That's why...

In fact, I might argue that apart from Hekaton, this wasn't necessarily worthy of a full release. PowerBI, BPE, the cardinality estimator changes, some Azure improvements and AlwaysOn changes, all...

Gary Varga (12/19/2014)

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I think that this all leads to a two tier Internet. This is like the early days of the web where AOL (I think) users had a simplified...

Assuming we did have the technical framework in place to make someone globally "forgotten", what's to prevent the bad guys from abusing the system? This reminds me of that 1995...

In the aftermath of the Enron probe, NSA leak, and Sony hack, I'd suggest executives take their controversial shop talk offline to a bar or the golf course. I know...

paul.kemner (12/18/2014)

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I just want to claim copyright on all my life data. Then if someone's using it without paying the price I set, I'll go all "RIAA" and seize their...

I'm in favor of scrubbing information that can be proven incorrect (ex: a news story originally got the name wrong) or data that is private without any public value (ex:...

If you have an application that routinely deletes records that were previously inserted, then it implies there is something wrong with the design. Deleting records in a relational database is...

Michael Meierruth (12/18/2014)

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Eric M Russell (12/17/2014)

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DonlSimpson (12/17/2014)

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As a side note, on some RDMS platforms, various stubbed values are treated literally as NULL. For example, Oracle treats an empty string as...