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  • RE: The Poor Soul

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/11/2011)


    Eric M Russell (5/11/2011)


    If you have a NetFlix account, then watch a Clint Eastwood western movie for inspiration. You tell the townpeople how it's going...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Poor Soul

    Kenneth Wymore (5/11/2011)


    One thing you can do from a training perspective is to sign up for as many free webinars as possible and post them on your outlook calendar as...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Poor Soul

    jcrawf02 (5/11/2011)


    Eric M Russell (5/11/2011)


    Of course the best way to learn is from peers and internal documentation. Unfortunately, in a small IT shop the new guy may not have anyone...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Poor Soul

    Of course the best way to learn is from peers and internal documentation. Unfortunately, in a small IT shop the new guy may not have anyone within the organization to...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: An Impressive SQL Server

    What impresses me is a database where the tables are normalized and named consistently, every table has a primary key, foreign key relationships are indexed, the database developers have an...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Dropping a Row

    cfradenburg (5/10/2011)


    I'm not quite sure I agree that if Facebook lost 1 out of 1,000 posts that no one would care. I do agree that with Google most people...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: An Impressive SQL Server

    J Thaddeus Klopcic (5/6/2011)


    As a former database developer for UPS, I can defintely state that UPS does use SQL Server to process its packages. While the main package database...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: An Impressive SQL Server

    What I would find impressive are case studies about state or even federal government agencies, like the IRS or the California Department Of Motor Vehicles, using SQL Server as their...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: An Impressive SQL Server

    I read a note about a 1.1PB database, built on SQL Server to hold data from telescopes. That particular data warehouse is producing 1.4TB a day. I know it's mostly...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Running as SysAdmin

    Peter Trast (5/4/2011)


    Eric M Russell (5/4/2011)


    A simple Google search can reveal page after page of web.config files located (perhaps inadvertently) in public web folders and contain a ConnectionString with uid="SA"...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Running as SysAdmin

    A simple Google search can reveal page after page of web.config files located (perhaps inadvertently) in public web folders and contain a ConnectionString with uid="SA" and PW.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Running as SysAdmin

    Eric M Russell (5/4/2011)


    kim.etcheson (5/4/2011)


    We bought a vendor package where the vendor hardcoded the db logon and password in the application that we couldn't change on the database or the...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Running as SysAdmin

    kim.etcheson (5/4/2011)


    We bought a vendor package where the vendor hardcoded the db logon and password in the application that we couldn't change on the database or the app wouldn't work....

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Running as SysAdmin

    Least privilage is actually east to setup. First create a role that grants exec permission on the stored procedures that the application needs access to, add then add the application's...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Cascading Human Error

    Unfortunately, at 10:15am PDT, one of the operations engineers developing the playbook touched the keyboard. This resulted in a full outage of the network infrastructure sitting in front of Cloud...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

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