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Much smaller scale than the US gov't losing a billion dollars, but I know someone working for a city whose IT department has the vendors do all the DBA tasks...
October 22, 2015 at 11:25 am
I'd never heard of CAP, seems to me to be sort of an expansion of ACID, and it makes sense to me. But I've never dealt with distributed systems,...
October 21, 2015 at 11:33 am
I've been there, and my wife is going through it right now. I would start with not taking work home with you -- if you're not getting paid to...
October 21, 2015 at 10:08 am
Eric M Russell (10/21/2015)
October 21, 2015 at 8:05 am
Iwas Bornready (10/21/2015)
Good/Bad managers/management has to be included in any Risk Management Analysis. It's a risk that as other commenters have stated could destroy a project or even a company.
Part...
October 21, 2015 at 8:00 am
timlenz (10/20/2015)
October 20, 2015 at 4:58 pm
I read an article recently about the CIA pulling its personnel from China who were there under embassy/trade covers. Since China pulled the entire OPM database, they know who...
October 20, 2015 at 8:58 am
Eric M Russell (10/19/2015)
October 19, 2015 at 1:14 pm
If you aren't learning from your mistakes, you're not learning. One morning on the way to work about 30 years ago I had an auto accident, and I should...
October 19, 2015 at 9:26 am
devdocs (6/11/2013)
Thanks Dave...One more question:
Will this query (Finding queries to tune) be executed in Master DB only???
The DMVs look at overall cache, not just a specific database. I...
October 16, 2015 at 8:38 am
I've been thinking about the original question, longevity of systems, and we have LOTS of examples of long-lived systems from various origins in this message thread. I know in...
October 9, 2015 at 11:13 am
Eric M Russell (10/8/2015)
Maybe we're at the point where we need to...
October 8, 2015 at 8:36 am
GoofyGuy (10/7/2015)
Like, that guy who just walked out of the store with a six pack of Pabst beer probably doesn't have more than a few bucks in his wallet ...
And...
October 7, 2015 at 4:18 pm
GoofyGuy (10/7/2015)
EdVassie, terrific post. Very thought-provoking.And, erm, by the way, I'm keeping my toaster oven no matter what.
But if you don't upgrade to the new SmartToaster 2.5, YOU ARE A...
October 7, 2015 at 11:27 am
There's a lot of factors to weigh in: does the vendor still exist, do they still have the source code, etc. Do we still have people running IE 6...
October 7, 2015 at 8:52 am
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