Ray K (2/18/2015)

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Interesting article. ESPN ranked all 30 MLB teams. Here are the teams they ranked 6 through 1. They also have links so you can see...

I did. An older guy that I thought had dropped out of the league came back (from cancer) and started a new team. I pinged...

Ray K (2/18/2015)

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Quite honestly, just the simple crack of the bat,...

I hate shared disks. SAN admins usually get upset at me because I want the underlying architecture. Sales reps aren't thrilled either that I complain when they put all the...

Actually, I got the first draft of the first article yesterday. I'll review this week, and depending on edits, I suspect we'll get the first one out in Mar. We...

Michal-469362 (2/17/2015)

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Backups are being stored on a network drive, so they are not on the same server in case of complete meltdown.

And this server will have a RAID10 setup, so...

Any ref here? I don't worry too much...

Adding to what Scott says, where do backups go?

Personally I would do "A" with backups on the second drive, away from data. So, if I had for a database

Drive 1...

Eric M Russell (2/17/2015)

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But are most data breaches the result of SQL injection or even ad-hoc database access by outsiders?

From what I've seen, most of these massive data breaches...

Alvin Ramard (2/17/2015)

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It shouldn't be to hard to develop a function, or functions, on the application development side that test all SQL statements to prevent injection. Once that's done,...

Hope everyone had a great President's Day. We don't have the snow that Grant does, but we did get 8" or so in Winter Park.

As a Cowboys/Yankees fan, I'm used to the teasing.

No need to stop, anyone.

Not I. Since I'll be in Europe until Mar 11, didn't want to extend 3 more...

Very good points, Tom, and I mostly agree in principle. However in practice, the DBA...

Jeff Moden (2/15/2015)

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The difficult part for me is that I've already written about most of the generic solutions that I've used in the real world and the rest are covered...