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  • RE: Backups Over Time

    I have a number of files from 20+ years ago that I'd like to recover that were written in a long-gone word processor, Borland's Sprint. But they just aren't...

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  • RE: Crack that Encrypted Data

    Gary Varga (4/19/2016)


    Yet Another DBA (4/19/2016)


    Gary Varga (4/19/2016)


    bthomson (4/19/2016)


    join an organization like https://www.infragard.org/ this is a partnership with the FBI. It has chapters in most cities. Supposedly...

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  • RE: Digital Artefacts

    One thing that I love about digital reproductions of artifacts is that while ISIS destroys them, we can remake them. It's sad that religious fanaticism is set on ruining...

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  • RE: What's Your Downtime?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/15/2016)


    Maybe. I worked in a large, Fortune 500 company (12k+ employees) and we had someone drop a tool during UPS maintenance one afternoon. Most of...

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  • RE: What's Your Downtime?

    We had an interesting outage earlier this month. My boss and Microsoft were working on a certificate issue on my hosted server and needed to reboot it. After...

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  • RE: New MySQL Engine Supports T-SQL

    Personally I'm waiting for DB2 on MySQL.

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  • RE: SnowCrash for SQL Server

    Unix Doom Sysadmin[/url]

    Remember when Minority Report came out and everyone wanted to wave their arms around for doing sysadmin work?

    Well, myself, I'm still on a keyboard.

    VR definitely has its uses,...

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  • RE: No Overtime

    Lynn Pettis (3/31/2016)


    Many years ago I worked for a company as a computer operator (paid OT) where you were paid one hour straight time for every 4 hours you wore...

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  • RE: SQL backup best practices

    I just read an article[/url] by Robert Sheldon on Simple Talk discussing metadata and some specific functions. Some things in it that you might find useful, including one to...

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  • RE: Search for hyphen in database: it does not find the hyphen?

    Luis, that is an awesome query! I suspected that was the problem when I first saw this post, but it was already answered and quite well at that.

    I would...

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  • RE: Export all tables to CSV files

    Bernard, I'm very impressed by your script! Very cool work!

    I'm also sad to inform you that you can do it in one line of code: there are two undocumented...

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  • RE: SQL backup best practices

    There are so many things that can affect performance that it's hard to know where to begin, and since you're dealing with a canned vendor package there are very definite...

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  • RE: SQL backup best practices

    I'm hoping someone else can pop in with another opinion. Like I said, I've never seen anything like it. It just doesn't make business sense to me to...

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  • RE: SQL backup best practices

    It looks to me like two different people wrote some overlapping business logic not knowing what the other person was doing. I've never seen or heard anything like this...

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  • RE: Ransomware trojan enters via Powershell script contained in Word macros

    The jerks who invent this stuff are amazingly resourceful and inventive. I've never personally understood why macros aren't stored in an external document of the same name, slap a...

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