I am looking forward to Thursday's event. I'm especially looking forward to SQL Server 2016's Always Encrypted functionality. That has the potential to being very useful in our environment, addressing...

I agree with this and have been thinking of things I can automate in my current job. What does surprise me though is how little things are automated already. In...

Kyrilluk (3/2/2016)

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Gary Varga (3/2/2016)

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I have been seriously thinking about this over the last couple of days and believe that a Neural Network can be audited. Not directly, as both Kyrilluk...

Wayne West (2/29/2016)

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There were several problems with electronic voting machines. The problem with trusting voting machine algorithms was that the companies would not allow the code to be audited...

Very interesting article. I do think that the implementation of some algorithms can be used to affirm the consequent. I've seen this happen and the use of an algorithm lends...

Great article, Steve! I've been thinking of download R Studio (I think that's what it's called), but without a data set to analyze it's hard to really do anything with...

That is a very good point Eric. And its one that I've never considered before.

Is the new Always Encrypted feature of SQL Server 2016 something only available in the Enterprise SKU of SQL Server?

Thanks for sharing, Eric. I haven't heard of this CrytoLocker virus and I honestly thought it was something that was targeted. Now it sounds more like something that just gets...

WOW, Eric! That's pretty bad. Up to this point we've been talking about corporate systems. Now you're mentioning a personal computer. I've heard of people being stung by ransomware, but...

Very scary scenarios, Steve. It sounds more like a JJ Abrams movie plot, rather than potentially real. WOW, I hope it doesn't happen here.

This is ironic. Today we're upgrading that SQL 2005 instance I mentioned last week. In our case we're going to SQL 2012. (I don't know why they didn't go to...

Gary Varga (2/11/2016)

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I have found that it depends on whom the responsibility to fix it lies. Do they control a budget? Does it form part of what they have to...

We have a mixture of SQL 2005, 2008 R2 and 2012 databases. I don't know the total number, but I know all of them are several hundred. Fortunately most are...

I hope that you're right, Steve. I work in the pubic sector but don't see the innovation that you describe. Again, I could say more but shouldn't.