Never had one enforced but I have never breached one either. Most NDAs and NCAs seem reasonable and when a reasonable deviation from an enforceable has been discussed then I...

In England & Wales (Scotland and NI have their own laws albeit often in line with the rest of the UK but I am unsure about this point) the whole...

First off, I am usually the worst predictor of anything.

I think that the overall IT community will struggle to accept a Microsoft derived solution and that this is a cultural...

Current client has at least 7-8 copies including the data, sometimes obfuscated, excluding backups and schema only copies. Probably double that. I don't know about the backups, except that they...

Bad design and coding practices always seem to challenge system limits. I don't see why SQL Server should be any different. [I am not sure if I am just saying...

Some sense there. In the hardware and general manufacturing world they accept faults more readily. They define acceptible Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) and %age...

philcart (9/1/2016)

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Also, to add to previous posts, something that has tripped me up before when using UNC paths. Powershell cmdlets can attempt to resolving the UNC path to registry location...

ZZartin (9/1/2016)

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Aaron N. Cutshall (9/1/2016)

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I totally agree. As a data architect, I get frustrated when development managers are only concerned with right...

One of the things that stops me totally switching off in the daily SSC Editorial. Ironic or...

+1

How...

Having read all this years ago and agreed that we all should all take our days off, I am still struggling. As a freelancer I do not have an allocation....

URL doesn't help...but this just might: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3938058/changing-the-physical-path-of-an-iis-website-on-a-remote-machine-via-powershell

Or maybe this: https://kabheap.wordpress.com/code-library/powershell/powershell-update-iis-virtual-directory-physical-paths/%5B/url%5D

I would go as far as saying it normally requires "unsophisticated" code.

David.Poole (8/31/2016)

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...Hardware is cheaper right up until your data centre is full, then your next server costs millions.

Cloud hardware is cheap provided you design to scale out on the low...

This is why I often say my loyalty...