The problem with random salts is they have to be stored somewhere, which probably makes them available to the hacker, especially if they are prepended to the hash, which is...

I've been thinking for a while that the userid, especially if it's an email address, would be a good salt. It's unique per user, doesn't have to be stored separately,...

We've told several vendors that there is not a chance that they will get to use sa to do anything, and that they need to change their product to meet...

bspring (9/18/2013)

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I work in IT at an USAF airbase and we are NOT allowed to connect anything to the USB ports except specific pieces of government HD's and floppies. ...

JBrosch (8/22/2013)

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I'm sorry - but IMHO you start with a basic premise that I disagree with ... the government right or responsibility to collect data. Where in the US...

Try a search for ITIL CMDB tools for an introduction to available productss that do what you are looking for.

Unless there's a compelling reason (need for security at the DB level comes to mind) to separate the data, I would go with a single DB. One of the accounting...

I suspect these types of articles are written by people who have little or no experience with IT in very large organizations, especially with respect to ERP systems. Absent central...

Greg_Della-Croce (6/6/2013)

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Thanks for clearing that up for me. Since Hadoop is a great scanning tool for when you have data over a TB, are there tools that can...

You might also want to take a look at Splunk. I've heard good things about its ability to analyze gigabytes of data quickly. http://www.splunk.com/?r=header

I have to ask why order matters for the records stored in the table. SQL Server makes no guarantee about that. The only reliable way I am aware of to...

Jeff, the IBM documentation is very good. You can find it at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/

The copy commands I mentioned earlier are built in to the AS400, and cna be scheduled if your...

I know some folks using Splunk for log analysis on enterprise internet connections that generate 150GB+ of log data per day. So far, they are pretty happy with the tool,...

Jeff, you should also check to see if the AS400 you need to extract from has any third party query tools on it, or Query/400. Those generally have th eability...

Jeff Moden (4/29/2013)

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I guess I'll ask a similar question on these thread. Is there any way to bulk export data from DB2 to a Tab delimited file? One...