Love these Friday articles. Always something to just think about before the weekend.

I agree with you, but not 100%. We're living in the age of the geek and having STEM...

RTM == Read The Manual

David.Poole (11/7/2016)

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The problem with the new "shiny bobbles" is that no-one really knows how to use them except the people who wrote them and those people aren't necessarily the ones...

First, I've never seen that quote by C.S. Lewis. I love it!

To answer your second question, what I do with others trying to learn something I know is determine what...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/6/2016)

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Doctor Who 2 (11/5/2016)

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This article has me wondering about my own account. I have an account with Wells Fargo. Naturally they've been sending out emails...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/3/2016)

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Ralph Hightower (11/2/2016)

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I don't think that a computer system could have detected the fraudulent activity at Wells Fargo. This was a systemic problem across the...

Eric M Russell (11/2/2016)

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kiwood (11/2/2016)

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Eric M Russell (11/2/2016)If IT was providing executive management with reports indicating an unusual spike in the number of new accounts opened and fees generated, then...

David.Poole (11/2/2016)

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Terry Pratchett described how the city of Ankh Morpork dealt with a plague of rats by paying a bounty on dead rats delivered. Despite this the rat problem...

I do not work for Wells Fargo, nor have I ever worked for them. Steve, in your article you suggested that data professionals should do more to help prevent fraudulent...

David.Poole (11/1/2016)

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I read a blog post about a bloke in a coffee shop who was approached by an old man who turned out to have been one of the most...

Very good article, Steve. I think you make several good points. One that I want to emphasize is at the end. That's to ask someone struggling with some technical issue...

I'm old enough to have been working in the IT field during the whole Y2K "event". Major decisions were put off because of it. A lot of work preparing DR...

Not including cell phones, the biggest expense for me is a Pluralsight subscription, since my employer won't pay for training, travel, conferences, etc.. And I have to pay for the...

jim.riedemann (10/13/2016)

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That's too bad to hear, Rod. I think it comes down to what kind of conflict the team uses - are they debating to find the best answer, or...

Speaking as someone who doesn't like to engage in conflict (and I bet many users of the SQL Server Central website fit that description) I don't care much for conflict....