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  • RE: Hacking Data

    An MP3 player and an automobile engine are two unrelated systems that should not be tightly coupled.

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

  • RE: Hacking Data

    Ian Scarlett (3/23/2011)


    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...

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

  • RE: Hacking Data

    nelsonj-902869 (3/23/2011)


    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...

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

  • RE: Hacking Data

    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...

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

  • RE: NoSQL is Not the Answer

    DataChomp (3/22/2011)


    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...

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

  • RE: NoSQL is Not the Answer

    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...

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

  • RE: NoSQL is Not the Answer

    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...

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

  • RE: NoSQL is Not the Answer

    David Portas (3/21/2011)


    Eric M Russell (3/21/2011)


    Aging and inadequate are not descriptive enough terms; could you elaborate more on what you perceive as the "fundamental problems of SQL"?

    The problems of SQL...

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

  • RE: NoSQL is Not the Answer

    David Portas (3/20/2011)


    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...

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

  • RE: Implicit and Explicit Conversions

    richardd (3/18/2011)


    Eric M Russell (3/17/2011)

    If an application must use VarDate columns, then they should at least code it using ISO standard format YYYYMMDD...

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

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

  • RE: NoSQL is Not the Answer

    CirquedeSQLeil (3/17/2011)


    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...

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

  • RE: Implicit and Explicit Conversions

    Ron Porter (3/17/2011)


    Mike B in AK (3/17/2011)


    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...

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

  • RE: Implicit and Explicit Conversions

    richardd (3/17/2011)


    Nakul Vachhrajani (3/16/2011)


    I have seen people using VARCHAR for storing everything (dates, money, floats)! Their excuse? Globalization/Internationalization.

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

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

  • RE: Implicit and Explicit Conversions

    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...

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

  • RE: How to Connect to a SQL 2005 Server When You Are Completely Locked Out

    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...

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

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