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... 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...

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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.

"..It is somewhat odd that so many of the opinion-formers on the technology of the IT industry have so little experience working in the industry as technologists. Few other professions...

Most phishing scams are automated and impersonal, while other scams hit closer to home. For example, last year my grandmother got a call from a guy pretending to...

This is just based on my personal perspective, but today in 2019, I wouldn't invest in an on-prem home lab. For my personal PC, I prefer a smaller notebook, and...