Transactions on a multi-user system can cause issues when people forget to commit or rollback before they get up to get a cup of coffee.

Whatever works to make you more...

Conceptually does it make sense to do this against hundreds of servers, or should I just stay focused on more standard deployments on my own box at first?

ITIL: The Information Technology Infrastructure Library. Most DBA out there have heard of ITIL;

I'm not sure this concept is ready to be referred to as an acronym.

Having a change...

To the best of my knowledge, I know of no temporal system that considers midnight to be at the end of the day. It always marks the beginning of...

On a related note:

What is the ISO standard for midnight?

2015-03-04 23:59

2015-03-0? 00:00

2015-03-05 00:01

Does ? = 4 or 5

I may or...

I like the way your formula skips the leap year problem.

I still remember when the church moved the calendar by a couple of weeks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

Now what happens when a government decides to skip a day...

this is great utility code. Can I share it on some wikis that I use?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/20/2015)

Is it? Could an unbounded "select * from employees" ever happen in a database resulting from some search? An ETL job running that moves data...

According to the people in charge of the investigations letting people know how they are done would just encourage more people to try, rather than encouraging people to close the...

We need to audit more, and worry about the technology of security as one of many issues to address in the security space.

David,

Thanks for posting about Patrick Lencioni. The publicly available information is very interesting and helpful.

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If these were publicly traded companies, would you short their stock?