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  • RE: Importing AS400 data

    Gianluca Sartori (5/28/2009)


    We have the same configuration: AS/400 and SQLServer 2005 x64.

    ODBC has always been slow in our environment, so we had to buy a OLEDB provider, which is...

  • RE: Dead Data

    Robert Domitz (5/28/2009)


    A few years ago, I purchased a lot of five used Dell PCs which had been "traded in" for new systems from a value-added reseller. ....

    ... so THAT'S...

  • RE: Dead Data

    This can get messy. Suppose you sign up with some information on a website with a good privacy policy (will not give name to others etc) but that company goes...

  • RE: Time Off

    Memorial Day is supposed to be a remembrance of those who died while defending the United States....While I have no problem with taking a day to relax, barbeque, and spend...

  • RE: Vendor Value

    A bit off topic, but an example of "IP" run amok... when other industries start copying the software biz..

    http://www.doublex.com/section/health-science/enough-patenting-breast-cancer-gene

  • RE: Vendor Value

    I agree. This is almost always a deliberate move.

    TV cable providers are notorious for this. They intentionally structure their offerings so that price comparisons with competitors are virtually impossible.

  • RE: Vendor Value

    majorbloodnock (5/18/2009)


    If I'm honest, it seems to me to all be semantics. Why should I care whether what I pay for software is called "maintenance" or "rental charge"? Why should...

  • RE: Checking Up on Developers

    Charles Hottle (5/8/2009)


    ... The most irritating issue so far has been applications that have requirements for a user with sysadmin rights on the server. ...

    .

    we had one commercial 3rd...

  • RE: Protect and Monitor

    monitor access in real time? A DBA cannot be expected to be the corporate traffic cop.

    In a large organization you can have hundreds or more legitimate users at any moment,...

  • RE: The Best High Availability

    oops worng thread

  • RE: The Best High Availability

    the majority of our failovers were storage related. For a number of years we were running a RAID before moving to SAN which has been better. The RAID never actually...

  • RE: Secure Storage

    alas, real security is a pain in the rump.

    One possible solution is to store the keylist history in an encrypted file, with that key only available to the few (never...

  • RE: The Best High Availability

    Our old 2000 server was clustered and was problematic at best due especially due to the shared drive requirement. Drive hiccups on the RAID box were our most common problem....

  • RE: Interfaces

    People fail to realize how intimately human speech and language is related to the human brain and physiology. It's not just an information transfer, far more information is not said...

  • RE: Interfaces

    Most interfaces are doomed to irrelevance (if not failure) because they are more 'gee wiz' than practical. Touch screens (except for special apps like ATMs and kiosks) work best for...

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