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  • RE: Whatever happened to Database Table Refactoring?

    Yet Another DBA (9/21/2015)


    ...The gulf between companies following good practice and companies that don't ( or even understand the concept of good practice) seem to be growing from my experience.

    I...

  • RE: Data Liability

    The law in many jurisdictions has shown itself to be ignorant of IT and naive in its understanding as to the effects demanded by lobbying stakeholders.

    Liability will be a mess...

  • RE: Data Sprawl

    Abrar Ahmad_ (9/22/2015)


    [font="Verdana"]Learning new technologies/tools but related ones is good but as per suitability of business/job...[/font]

    Definitely!!!

    We cannot apply a universal rule to learning except that keeping ones skills up is...

  • RE: Data Sprawl

    chrisn-585491 (9/22/2015)


    ...Additionally, listing OSS experience on a resume for a Windows position or vice-versa is a instant disqualification or red flag when apply for a good percentage of jobs. (Bitter...

  • RE: A Case for Database CI

    I am with you DBAs with your skepticism of ORMs, however, CI & CD, whilst no silver bullet, encourages early updates which also encourages a reasonable process for updating to...

  • RE: Mind your Database Ps and Qs

    call.copse (11/16/2015)


    I seem to spend half my life trying to drill this into various devs from multiple angles. It's often hard to maintain my equitable visage but of course always...

  • RE: Rogue Software Changes

    I don't buy it.

    I certainly do not believe that the shifting of a normal in the case of the Space Shuttle is equivalent to deliberately changing the way an engine...

  • RE: Mind your Database Ps and Qs

    Manners come with little cost yet make life much more pleasant. There is even the joy in exuding good manners. In this analogy you can reap what you sow!!!

  • RE: Everyone is a Target

    djackson 22568 (9/23/2015)


    Nice article.

    However, we need to stop saying security is a pain. Doing so only perpetuates the myth. Security is not difficult, and it is not painful....

  • RE: Data Masking for Convenience

    Very surprised to find this editorial from almost two months ago on a feature I had missed with so few comments.

    Thanks for the link to resources Steve.

  • RE: Logging Tables

    Eric M Russell (10/15/2015)


    ...My understanding is that a .NET or Windows app can write to a file in simply append mode (ie: WriteLine) or in block mode. For event logging,...

  • RE: Custom Schemas

    Rob N. (11/13/2015)


    ...We also tend to use a schema appendix of 'a', 'd', 'l', and 'h' to designate 'application configuration', 'data', 'logging' and 'historical'...

    Hungarian notation??? Nooooooooo!!!

  • RE: Custom Schemas

    david.gugg (11/13/2015)


    ...previous DBA thought it'd be a good idea to provide each customer of our SaaS software with its own schema. Image how incredibly hard it is to work...

  • RE: Need help to run a Powershell from SQL Server

    mark.williams 37494 (11/12/2015)


    Manic Star (11/12/2015)


    Wouldn't it be easier to work with a network admin to do a group policy instead?

    Definitely the way to go

    +1

  • RE: Do You Have Scary Code?

    David.Poole (11/11/2015)


    ...The tests are living artifacts that, when done properly, are a fine grained specification of what the system is supposed to do and the behaviours it is supposed to...

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