Steve, your final point about how the insurance industry can help stimulate the progress of enterprise IT security is a good one. It's essentially the same same concept as the...

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I know I'm not a Villain, but I'm not sure where I fall on the spectrum between Hero versus Anti-Hero.

https://writerswrite.co.za/heroes-and-anti-heroes-whats-the-difference/

How far I'm willing to go beyond the call of duty...

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Eric M Russell.

SQL Server itself is a very stable and secure product. Unfortunately, it sits on top of Windows. When operations has WSUS auto scheduling Windows updates on a database server, I've...

Fortunately, most of the major 3rd party applications in use today are hosted in the cloud by the vendor themselves, rather than the IT organization hosting them on-premises. Huge monolithic...

The problem is that many organizations simply deploy a VCS solution and then put out the word that everybody should start using it. But it's not just another developer tool,...

It wouldn't surprise me if the department staff improperly accessing DMV records were also selling the data to third parties like private investigators, skip tracers, and law firms. Cell phone...

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I doubt that this one specific female employee was an isolated target. The people doing this have probably been routinely accessing DMV records for hundreds or thousands of women over...

If you have an IT organization where departments (ie: developers and DBAs) are physically or culturally isolated, then conflict is only temporary. What it becomes over time is a cold...

Azure Search supports Lucene compatible...

It would also be nice if they could tell me when I create an account how long it will remain active. Should I be able to force a renewal...

It's probably not a good idea to post a list of all the websites where you have a login.

For Azure SQL databases, there is Azure Search. There is also a pattern for integrating on-premises SQL Server with Azure Search using Azure Data Factory.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/v1/data-factory-azure-search-connector#json-example-copy-data-from-on-premises-sql-server-to-azure-search-index

I'm not sure if a current or near future SQL edition will do this, but in Cosmos DB, throughput is provisioned using request units per second (RU/s), so the number...

In most places where I've worked, to access some of the more important production database servers, even as a sysadmin, it is required to login to a MFA protected VPN...

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

If your organization uses Azure Active Directory, then maybe it's visible to you somewhere in the portal. For personal Microsoft Live accounts, there is a Recent Activity feature where you...