One of my first jobs (retail) many years ago had a policy against days off that even the department manager could not change, but allowed a certain number of sick...

Gov't/military applications of the electronic snooping technology seem to be described under the code name Tempest (not an acronym as far as I know) though the technology is certainly within...

There is some confusion possible with the ambiguous word 'unknown'

True, Codd's rule 3 says "Null must always be interpreted as an unknown value"  but 'unknown' is plainly used in the sense...

Well actually the purpose of null is 'unitialized', not the same as unknown.

Gender may be unknown where the available data do not specify a gender, but null where no data...

I think that keeping partners advised of reality is a good idea (though I'll bet the lawyers went ballistic, and the sarbox people got nervous).

But the information has to be...

I'm not sure you could say a library is 'vetted' other than that the books are purchased from generally known publishers. Librarians do not, should not, and are not qualified...

Actually the db was only 11788mb in size so it would not overrun the available space, however I noticed that the size increment was only 1Mb and the single query...

Unfortunately I feel that some problem (perhaps more strongly so) applies to our political leaders. In a 'business' where image and the appearance of knowing what to do is everything,...

The plane takes off and at cruising altitude, the wifi device secures a DHCP address from the plane's internal wireless Internet service. The terrorist now sees the device active from...

Though I suspect that a selection of records using a random function might be better. Selecting every n seems vulnerable to unintentional biases.

I should clarify that users cannot even manage their own jobs. They get errors just trying to create a job, actually they get errors just trying to open the jobs...

Whether you like porn or not, shielding kids from it is something that most of the world agrees with. It should be up to parents to decide if and when...

Ironic that as MS walks towards IBM, they meet Apple coming the other way.

Alas, nature is not symmetric.

Millions of years of evolution optimize for reproductive success, and the skills and behaviors that best achieve (or have...

"But if their time and effort, and the fact that they may not give a damn about fixing something, don't fit in with the running of my business, I am...