The truth is that, for most development teams, there is only one instance of the development database, and every build is an "integrated" deployment, wether is should be or not.

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For a small or medium sized retailer wanting a database backend for their e-commerce website, cloud based database hosting is perfect. They'd be fools to invest $$$,$$$ to stand up...

If someone casually asks what I do for a living, or I'm filling out an application for a car loan or something, then I simply reply that I work in...

It's too easy for human error and bias to filter and transform terrabytes and petabytes of data. Unless we also apply common sense, big data analytics will prove no more...

Jeff Moden (2/1/2014)

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I put predictions of the "Death of the DBA" right up there with predictions that the Y2K problem and the end of the Mayan calendar were going to...

Perhaps are your connection settings being overridden by config file?

djackson 22568 (1/30/2014)

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Software code should not be able to be patented. A copyright is more appropriate. There is little difference between me writing a book and writing code.

If...

hisakimatama (1/30/2014)

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On a more ridiculous note...

The word "candy" is now trademarked[/url]

This is all sorts of absurd. The makers of the Candy Crush line of mobile phone games were granted...

"1-click purchasing"; that's nothing; they're already moving way past that.

Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/01/17/amazon-wants-to-ship-your-package-before-you-buy-it/

http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=08615473&IDKey=2809423B2F61

The Seattle retailer in December gained a patent for what it...

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If the phrase "The DBA is Dead" is like saying "Dinosaurs are Dead", then it's not reallly true, because we're surrounded by the descendents of dinosaurs and VAX administrators who...

A well designed (normalized and optimized) database, with no frills, that doesn't receive ad-hoc query requests or bulk table loads, can run for weeks or months without DBA intervention, assuming...

patrickmcginnis59 10839 (1/24/2014)

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Here's a few reasons why I'm...

Greg Edwards-268690 (1/24/2014)

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Eric M Russell (1/24/2014)

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There are other 3rd parties like Google and OpenOffice who are developing front end applications for managing Excel spreadsheets. I'd hate for Microsoft to get...

Gary Varga (1/24/2014)

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Eric M Russell (1/24/2014)

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Excel can be a cog in a large organization's data processing lifecycle, somthing that exists peripheral to the RDMS, but that's not always the case.

There...