PHYData DBA (1/8/2015)

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If it goes down ever it is not a "cloud" service it is a remote service.

Cloud services are always on and should be redundant.

Verizon redefines the standard...

Charles Kincaid (1/7/2015)

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...underlying Microsoft philosophy. They provide stable features but don't complete the whole picture for you. This leaves room for third party developers to come in with...

My ideas are usually a variation of someone else's applied to a new scenario or in a novel way. Occasionally, just occasionally, I have an idea that I think of...

I think rollback plans are an essential part of any release. Anything containing data is more complicated because the rollback plan usually needs to consider the moving target that data...

It is the application of, sometimes valid (but often not...

In the UK we achieved this in the...

I find that I am geographically nowhere when I am learning. Be it nose in a book or hands at a keyboard. This is due to my propensity to shut...

Docker will move to being a standard piece of technology everyone uses.

As for other things...there will be plenty of hype.

The first thing that springs to mind is permissions:

a) for the file,

b) for executing the application,

c) to the printer.

You have but does the security context that you are running under...

Andy Warren (2/5/2015)

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Rob, I don't think it was cynical, more frustration. It can surely seem like a catch22 or worse! Being tired and/or stressed will just add to that, and...

There's no way I'm ever going to convert to a DBA if that is what a year does to you!!!

quackhandle1975 (2/3/2015)

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Wow, hard reading the last post article, but thanks for posting it.

As a man named Ferris Bueller once said:

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around...

Somehow, as a non-DBA this may not be common, I get the feeling that a lot of recent development (years - multiple full versions) is adding niche (or at least...

Just like Anders, I only have one place where I didn't leave on good terms. Some places I was really glad to be leaving but all except the one professionalism...

Some places only have certain systems on generator backup and one place I worked immediately lost power when road works cut through the main powerline to the business estate. A...