ICANN can defend itself by explaining the contact information is essential to it's core business operations. In the age of GDPR, organizations will need to be more transparent about their...

Used plastic bottles are valuable to a recycling company, while for most people (and companies) it's just a byproduct of our daily lives. To have a dollar value there must...

OK, so recovering from a disaster is a good adrenaline rush (so long as it doesn't turn into a full blown crisis), and getting praise for a job well done...

Platforms like Azure have removed the barrier of entry for companies that want to perform analytics, but we still need to consider whether it makes sense for most organizations to...

The sysadmin charged with guarding the gate doesn't necessarily need the key to every door inside the castle. For databases containing sensitive data, there should be something like column level...

RDMS are typically SQL based, but a RDMS can also use some other query language besides SQL, and a non-RDMS (or NoSQL) database can also use SQL. It seems to...

For this to work against SQL Server, it assumes that:

- The user's accounts is not domain authenticated
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/32490.active-directory-bad-passwords-and-account-lockout.aspx

- The sysadmin doesn't have 'enforce password...

Allowing customers to use the system while it's in the process of being migrated, I guess that's one way to meet the technical requirements of your department's 99.9% SLA. That...

Actually, [SQL Server] is a NoSQL database engine. It naively supports reading and writing data contained in row, columnular, xml, flat text, or blob format. It supports queries using: SQL,...

If babies die because an IT staff member happened to be on vacation, then there is something very wrong about the organization's functional dependency on information technology.

I appreciate my career; it allows me to earn a good living while doing something I actually enjoy and excel at. However, the cumulative impact of technology on society and...