paul.jones (9/29/2011)

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When one colleague left we found, along with the usual selection of pens and stuff, some crackers and a range of individually wrapped cheese portions.

Unfortunately it took us a...

GilaMonster (9/26/2011)

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That alone won't do anything other than raise an error that says something untrue. It's not rolling back the transaction. That transaction committed.

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Probably not sufficient, it...

The most common disaster that I seem to hear about is the "whoops" disaster. A disaster that's human error, a situation where someone makes a mistake in data entry. The...

djackson 22568 (9/22/2011)

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Eric M Russell (9/22/2011)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/21/2011)

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djackson 22568 (9/21/2011)

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And you want us to worry about things like whether a business is closed?

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We are fighting against significant...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/21/2011)

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djackson 22568 (9/21/2011)

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And you want us to worry about things like whether a business is closed?

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We are fighting against significant odds of success. I...

Data provided from 3rd party sources can be pruned or perhaps even corrected by cross referencing it with other more official or trusted databases. For example when an anonymous user...

WayneS (9/20/2011)

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Lon-860191 (9/20/2011)

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Maybe, it just that students are doing what they have learned from big business; when you want something done, outsource or subcontract the work to be done. They...

The most secure and best paying jobs are those where you do something that would be extremly difficult for another person to do. That's a good position to be in,...

Ian Scarlett (9/20/2011)

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All of this just reiterates the need to make job candidates answer real technical questions and/or sit a relevant test as part of an interview.

You have to take...

I do think there should be a formal mentoring process for new IT hires, especially developers. A new developer would therefore be considered an Apprentice until they really understand the...

Of course a lot of programmers did get their degree from a vocational school rather than a university. I don't think a four year degree should be required, however, there...

The runtime duration of a query isn't always indicative of how much work it's doing at the moment. Sometimes it's blocked or waiting in the queue. When diagnosing a problem...

I don't doubt that many hackers are self deluded and...

The prevalence of unionization here the US depends on the industry. It's common in manufactoring, transportation, education. Also about 35% of government employees are members of a union. There are...

I don't park randomly, but I rarely park in the spot two days in a row. My methodology for picking a parking spot at work is the same as when...