To everyone, thanks for the feedback and taking the time to respond. We appreciate all the comments, good and bad and they help us to decide on what changes we...

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No matter what you do policy or hardware wise, someone will get around it. Might even drop a new card in their PC or something. Monitoring is critical even if...

We certainly don't delete posts unless they're blatantly off topic and personally insulting to people. We also are rather intolerant of profanity.

Those are usually the only posts we remove and...

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multi-word Cut and paste accident.

My apologies.

Everyone above has commented on what I've done for over a decade. My "title" is what the employer lists for me. Or in some cases what I've requested because they...

These are the log files. You should periodically back these up and that will prevent them from filling up. (BACKUP TRANSACTION)

I tend to agree with Tom that there are places where low selectivity can still benefit from indexes. Usually it's in a place where you can still eliminate a large...

I'll reserve judgement on the MCA program until we see how well it predicts some competency. Don't forget, however, that there are many certified "doctors", not all of whom are...

The BOFH series is here:http://members.iinet.com.au/~bofh/index.html

It's humorous at times, but some are over the top. My wife doesn't like it.

Bill Plummer, wow, I want to work for your company. That's a nice setup. One question on it, what happens when you use the laptop remotely with just the one...

Either a backup or possibly a log reader like Golden Gate's LogPI or Lumigent's Log Explorer could script what you need.

I agree with lholman, EM is the way to make this change.

Matt's a friend. He understands and I'm sure he's laughing about Steve the SQL Nazi.

What about recommendations for those strange artsy, Cannes-art-festival people? They like the movies the experts pick! (apologies Bob if you're one of those artsy folk).

I'm not sure this isn't mining....