There will always be a need for both approaches.

Appliances work best where there is a very standardized constellation of requirements across different businesses. But there will always be plenty of...

The sentence is a bit extreme, but his password actions had nothing to do with security. He was making demands and holding the passwords hostage to try to force the...

James Stover (8/9/2010)

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Sure...for those businesses that are going to flout the law anyway. For those who adhere to the rules, it gives them proper incentive (and justification) to spend the...

Steve Jones - Editor (8/9/2010)

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We'll never stop all leaks/breaches.

We'll never have perfect security.

..I don't think we ought to have more regulation, but just disclosure. I'm not sure fines do it,...

This is getting to the disastrous legal concept of 'zero tolerance' which causes all sorts of unintended side effects simply because of the loss of judgement and proportionality. Not all...

Perhaps it's encoded precisely because...

Question Guy (8/2/2010)

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I suppose it depends how snooping is used. If snooping is used to expose positions that are grossly overpaid, then its a good thing. (From time to...

On another website I've seen the suggestion that this is a problem especially for closed source products-- the priority is to get working product out the door often with generations...

The ability to selectively recover from bad data input should really be part of the initial database design. It's not enough to have 'point in time" because substantial transactions may...

Assumptions get a bad rap, even though though they must regularly be re-evaluated.

Life would be impossible without thousands of assumptions me make each day. We assume the bridge we are...

It's a lot more variable than that.

Even the same people will react differently to different crises, and even to the same crisis at different times. There are times when a...

TravisDBA (7/6/2010)

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Thanks, but I already know about backing up a encrypted database with compression has no effect on the compression, and that is in BOL, hence my first post. However,...

TravisDBA (7/6/2010)

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What I don't understand is why Mickeysoft would include two new features like TDE and Backup Compresion that are not mutually compatible with each other. If you don't believe...

I'm not surprised that it is known. Hopefully this post will help those who, like me, were...

James Stover (6/21/2010)

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bwillsie-842793 (6/21/2010)

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Maybe a lot of us have been sort of working "in the clouds" and just not thought of it that way.

The company I work for is located...