Interesting stuff. I've never been directly involved in a data center build-out, though I helped design a telecomm site in the past and that had a lot of similarities....

Using the Code IFCode shortcuts...

~paul hewitt (8/1/2008)

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Given that HR people have no way to be certain that any information they find is genuine, I don't think they should take any action based upon what...

Nicole Bowman (7/31/2008)

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Thanks for a clear and concise article. It made me realise that there is some work to do here! The backups are good but the jobs, DTS packages...

Very good article for a basic intro to DR and some of the pitfalls that you could encounter. You're describing a higher level of DR than we're employing at...

There's so much unanswered. My first question would be: are all of their databases on Microsoft SQL Server? If they're Oracle or Informix or whatever, then we're going...

matt (7/30/2008)

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The Prius was built as a fuel efficient car for people that were concerned about the environment. The truth is that it isn't as fuel efficient as it was...

jpowers (7/30/2008)

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And I don't buy the story that the Prius is more environmentally unfriendly than "American" cars because it is shipped from Japan and has parts that come from Canada....

I would love to telecommute, and loved telecommuting when I was able to do it as a contract database developer, our house in Cloudcroft is on the top of a...

icocks (7/29/2008)

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The government could save a packet on the bureacracy involved in adminstering road tax and wouldn't have to pay for vehicle tracking systems or for consultants to indulge in...

Wayne West (7/25/2008)

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I'm having a similar problem, and in my case, it's due to date/time fields having 24 hour time: the incoming will be something like 072520081341 and it will...

I thought of another solution over the weekend and tested it this morning and it works nicely. The last field in the detail record is a 41 character blank...

I'm having a similar problem, and in my case, it's due to date/time fields having 24 hour time: the incoming will be something like 072520081341 and it will blow. ...

I wouldn't say that a lot of Americans are cultural morons, but they definitely can be culturally ignorant. Definitely too many Americans assume that the rest of the world...

:hehe: Absolutely, as a rule, you probably don't want to have those running on the same server. But our standard answer here is, "It depends."

It just reported the...