The reality is that going directly to the DBA or developer may not be the best approach for an end user to propose some new application functionality, especially if it's...

Customer contact information is an example of where an entity-attribute-value model makes sense. The design is simple, efficient, and can be easily extended to support any type of contact, wether...

When I think of "big data", I think of cutting edge analytical systems that crunch TB sized datasets to solve new problems. Things like predicting weather patterns or election results....

This is definitely an area of our industry that needs more work and research. Lots of organizations, especially government organizations are being called on to open their databases up to...

GSquared (1/7/2013)

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Eric M Russell (1/7/2013)

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Using the a VPN to connect to my desktop at the office, I don't even have any corporate email on my laptop, it absolutely nothing work...

Using the a VPN to connect to my desktop at the office, I don't even have any corporate email on my laptop, it absolutely nothing work related except for the...

At my company, those of us who work remotely use our laptop to Remote Console into one more Virtual PCs or just a desktop tucked away in a forlorn cubicle....

Bhuvnesh (12/26/2012)

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on the contrary...

Relatively few companies have lost employees or potential candidates to Microsoft or Google. If you're looking for competent or even talented programmers who will work for under 100k, they are...

Peter Bannister (12/24/2012)

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Hi,

a while ago I had to create an environment copy for a large database at a client site.

I tried several methods to copy the large tables, but the...

sqlsurfer11 (12/23/2012)

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Hi I need to refresh data in a table from another table. It has about ~14 million records that need to be inserted.

(was planning to use import data...

I'm not a sysadmin, more of a developer and data analyst, so I usually write my...

Database deployments have unique challenges like: altering or dropping/recreating schemas while preserving existing data, object dependencies, schema variations between development, QA, UAT, and production.

However, the most problematic issue is...

Database cloud services in 2012 are sort of like web application frameworks back in 1996; the basic technology infrastructure is there, but folks are still debating about what to do...

Just as cell phone providers have been using aggressive marketing and competitive pricing plans for decades, perhaps cloud database providers will also use highly publicised outages and security breaches to...