Geoff.Sturdy (10/25/2016)

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Gary - the two digit year was born out if the need to conserve memory in early systems - back in the late 70s /early 80s memory was...

Jeff Moden (10/24/2016)

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Rod at work (10/24/2016)

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I'm old enough to have been working in the IT field during the whole Y2K "event". Major decisions were put off because of it. A...

Makes sense...but we would need an alternative term as Unstructured Data is a term that defines something. It may hint at more so be inaccurate but revocation can only occur...

xsevensinzx (10/23/2016)

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Actually, I slightly disagree with this. I feel conflict happens a lot because people are putting the team first over the business. We...

William Rayer (10/24/2016)

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Following on from the above approach, I am sure we could do effective masking by SQL scripting:

- Names, if we had a table of equivalent names we could...

Surprisingly many. Too many.

Totally agree with the editorial. Being prepare for disasters means that it is more likely that the disaster suffered will match one of the ones prepared for.

Totally enjoyed the Clowns...

Fallen cloud 😮

Shamefully, in the past I think that I have on occasion pushed a decision. Always wrong.

Heated debates are healthy.

Cold arguments are not.

I totally get what you are saying Graham. When I did my MSc it was mainly whilst commuting on trains. I would put headphones in, even if I wasn't listening...

I tend to buy as I require whilst trying to stretch out the use based on need. That has meant that twice I have purchased laptops almost without notice, however,...

Ed Wagner (10/20/2016)

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I'd object if that critical application was running on your desktop and your hard drive failed. Or if...

David.Poole (10/14/2016)

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I've got a bit of a home lab but rarely use it these days. Frankly commute time plus an average of 9-10 hour days on top leaves little...

Iwas Bornready (10/17/2016)

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If the queries aren't too intensive we just use production. For those over-the-top queries we use a recent backup in some staging type area, knowing that the data...