"... I do carry electronics, usually a laptop, though sometimes two, along with the various supporting plugs and wires for charging it and my mobile. There was a time when...

We use  Atlassian hosted Bitbucket - locked away behind encrypted repositories...

Canada has something similar.

".. Information on all public sector employees who were paid $100,000 or more in 2018 and are subject to the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act .."

https://www.ontario.ca/page/public-sector-salary-disclosure-2018-all-sectors-and-seconded-employees

If you are an employee of the US federal government, then your salary history is public information.

Search Federal Employee Salaries

https://www.fedsdatacenter.com

7,040,119 entries

... This website makes this information on you available for anyone to see. They'll take it down, for  fee. I don't think that's at all right. I've not...

"Who wants their boss to come after reading this page, with your organization and fine listed? I'm guessing most of us would prefer to not be on that page, or...

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by Eric M Russell.

Another angle is that maybe the ransomware attack isn't purely the result of bad luck, brilliant hacker engineering, or incompetence on the part of the organization. Maybe someone inside the...

And then what... - Hire a replacement DBA or engineer who doesn't open email attachments?

An add campaign email may be flagged as junk if enough users

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This is already being done. There are things a system would spot, and there are things that a...

The future of database applications is cloud hosting, virtualization, and horizontal scaling.

It's kind of like debating whether to invest $,$$$ in a riding lawnmower, hoping it will cut your weekly...

I seems to me that, if you can train employees how to spot a phishing email, then a anti-malware scanning product can also identify phishing emails, even if an email...

What you need is a covering index. Read up on that topic. Basically, it's called covering, because it contains all the key and projected columns referenced by the query which...

I remember hearing a surgeon talk about his surgical memoir. It really struck me. He said, the first 10 years, you learn how to cut. The next 10 years,...

SQL and HTML/JavaScript are two sides of the same coin. Both languages are easily accessible but broadly misused. Most complaints about "limitations" are actually founded on misconceptions about how the...

Thanks, Steve, for all the effort you put into this article. This is also a good tutorial on using Git to effectively collaborate with a large team on a project.