... The service does this by keeping a log of all transactions for a set amount of time (up to 72 hours). When things go bad after you dropped...

.. The problem is that for many of us, we may run DBCC CHECKDB on another machine, perhaps on a restored copy of production, so how can we track...

If your burnout is the result of boredom then that's a symptom of not taking on enough risk or perhaps not reaching out to take on new challenges.

The thing is, folks in IT are often far removed from the fruits of their labor. A job working for the world's largest eCommerce company versus working for a bank,...

My understanding is that the client only needs to have installed the root certificate of the Certificate Authority, and then the client can validate any server certificate issued by that...

Lay folk (non-techies) are impressed by Avatars, because they look more human. They can do things like provide context sensitive winks and smiles, so they're perhaps assumed to possess more...

It helps if you work for an organization with a large and diverse enough IT department that you can context switch between projects and perhaps even roles, while at the...

I think of data not in terms of oil or soy beans (a commodity that is fixed and can be owned discretely) but rather in terms of water flowing down...

It would be interesting to hear the printer engine programmer's point of view.

You shouldn't "shush" someone unless they are saying something so inappropriate there is a need to cut them off in mid sentence to prevent them from speaking further. For example,...

From what I've seen, the ads created were not very sophisticated and were targeting folks who's political opinions havn't evolved since high school. Basically, it was digital equivalent of spraying...