Grant, you are a busy man!  What timely post, b/c I was just thinking that I might have stop my volunteer work with the PA Master Naturalist group because I...

Very interesting article, that I tucked away and recently had a reason to revisit. I am not sure I am understanding it completely. Do you have any other...

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We've seen RFPs asking for 2 terabytes of data in the cloud with 24 hour recovery time, with the data encrypted at rest. I can't find anyone who can...

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I agree with your post, but have trouble reconciling it with the Modern Resume, which suggests blogging, tweeting, and speaking about your professional life, in addition to the work you...

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Never mind, it turns out it was logging, but I wasn't finding it in the log due to my lack of attention to the details. Sheesh. I need...

Half and half. I think it is very important to build and maintain those relationships at work through a lunch now and then, and it is also important to...

Rob,

You may be interested in reading this article:

http://www.bidn.com/articles/integration-services/119/parallel-loads-in-ssis

which seems to be similar to Todd's idea, and additionally describes how to affinitize an SSIS process to a core, so...

Improving, and broadening, one's technical skills is not only worthwhile, it seems to be very necessary in today's economy, which stresses increased productivity (more output per worker). And I...

Evernote is the winner. I am using it now, and finding it working well for my needs (after paying $45 for an annual subscription so I could upload my...