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  • RE: On Learning from Experience and Misfortune

    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...

  • RE: An Out of Date CAP

    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,...

  • RE: Feeling exhausted, overworked and tired.

    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...

  • RE: Serious Hacking

    Eric M Russell (10/21/2015)


    If someone (or something), other than the official DBA, unexpectedly changes configuration settings on the database server, then you probably want to immediately close all connections, disable...

  • RE: Bad Management

    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...

  • RE: Serious Hacking

    timlenz (10/20/2015)


    Mike Fal (github.com/MikeFal) did an excellent presentation to our SQL Users Group on configuring your servers using PowerShell. By having the configuration setup he was able to install a...

  • RE: Serious Hacking

    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...

  • RE: Bad Management

    Eric M Russell (10/19/2015)


    No need to grab the pitchforks or risk throwing yourself under a bus. Many organizations have an envelope box or email address where employees can submit suggestions...

  • RE: On Learning from Experience and Misfortune

    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...

  • RE: Finding queries to tune

    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...

  • RE: Aging Software

    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...

  • RE: Aging Software

    Eric M Russell (10/8/2015)


    ... Despite all the hype, investment, mainstreaming, and promise... Does the Internet Of Things and Big Data really matter?

    Maybe we're at the point where we need to...

  • RE: Aging Software

    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...

  • RE: Aging Software

    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...

  • RE: Aging Software

    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...

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