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  • RE: Anonymisation Confusion

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:02 AM

    Rod at work - Wednesday, May...

  • RE: Anonymisation Confusion

    I agree with you, Steve, at least in principal. And its one we've recently adopted here. But we're also experiencing a lot of push back by the users. The first...

  • RE: Auto-Deleting Data

    dld - Tuesday, May 1, 2018 9:39 AM

    Small text emails are not really a problem in terms of space. The issue with...

  • RE: Auto-Deleting Data

    Good questions you've raised, Steve. Like you, I tend to hold onto emails for long times. At my old job we had fewer resources, so we were involved in getting...

  • RE: The Last Service Pack

    This change in how Microsoft is pushing out updates, using CU's instead of SP's, is going to through some people off, I think. I've known enough DBA's what only seem...

  • RE: Cloud Snake Oil

    Sounds like you're definitely further down this cloud road, then I am, Steve. Sage advise, thank you for sharing it!

  • RE: New IT Departments

    I don't agree with you on this one, Steve. There's a lot of MS Access apps around here, where I work. I was told by the head DBA that a...

  • RE: Machine Learning Challenges

    jay-h - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 8:54 AM

    Rod at work - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 8:44 AM

  • RE: Machine Learning Challenges

    Since the introduction of machine learning (ML) I've been quite interested in it. It involves statistics, which I enjoy. But I can see how something like ML might not work...

  • RE: Considering Other Views

    This is a topic which has concerned me for a long time. In my previous job there were ladies who used the software we wrote to do their jobs. These...

  • RE: Is the DBA Title Dying?

    WOW, very interesting article, Steve. It leaves me very ambivalent. I loved doing the DBA work I did at my old job, where I had to wear several different hats....

  • RE: ETL or ELT

    Interesting article. Without realizing I was doing ELT as recently as last weekend. I had to pull a lot of data into a database, but was struggling with finding a...

  • RE: SQL Server Authenticated Users, why are we still using them?

    bkubicek - Monday, April 2, 2018 8:25 AM

    Rod at work - Sunday, April 1, 2018 10:43 AM

  • RE: SQL Server Authenticated Users, why are we still using them?

    ed.white - Friday, March 30, 2018 1:42 PM

    I've seen systems where using Windows Auth fails due to Login timeouts set to over...

  • RE: SQL Server Authenticated Users, why are we still using them?

    Peter Schott - Friday, March 30, 2018 1:25 PM

    Well, another concern is if you're using Azure SQL.  Yes, there's Azure AD, but...

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