Ian Scarlett (3/23/2011)

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It isn't just the hackers you have to worry about... the car manufacturers are up to no good with their own car software.

Peugeot in Europe were found to...

nelsonj-902869 (3/23/2011)

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I suggest we all go back to listening to AM radio. No more tapes or CDs or XMSirius radio that no one knows anything about or that requires you...

It's crazy to think that the audio system in some cars can be wired to the ignition system in such a way that that a hacked MP3 file could kill...

DataChomp (3/22/2011)

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I'm really enjoying RavenDB on the windows stack and MongoDB on the linux stack. I also like PostGreSQL in the RDBMS world.

Naturally, my favorite data product is SQL...

If you call a SQL DBMS "relational" then what do you expect me to call a DBMS that really is relational? How can we have a proper discussion about different...

So you are acknowledging that those problems exist in SQL. In fact you go to a lot of trouble to avoid them. Sometimes there are no workarounds and sometimes the...

David Portas (3/21/2011)

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The problems of SQL...

David Portas (3/20/2011)

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NO SQL is the answer. Industry badly needs a new database model to replace the ageing and inadequate SQL model that we have been stuck with for 30...

richardd (3/18/2011)

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But if you're using real dates, why not...

CirquedeSQLeil (3/17/2011)

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I think a huge it depends is in order for NoSQL v RDBMS. One thing to consider is if the data consistency or data recoverability in your application...

Ron Porter (3/17/2011)

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Mike B in AK (3/17/2011)

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Interestingly, I inherited a process where the previous person stored integer values in a varchar(3) field and did poor quality checks on the data...

richardd (3/17/2011)

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How can anyone claim that storing a date as the string "09/01/2001" is...

The representation of dates as character strings in a database (what I'll call a "VarDate") is one of the leading causes of business intelligence disasters.

The day will come when another...

There are many different scenarios, but if what you need is access to the database itself, then you can always attach a copy of the mdf file(s) to a SQL...

Just because a database platform is good enough for Facebook or Google, that doesn't mean it's good enough for online banking or e-commerce. I believe that financial and operational data,...