Darren ... I am a bit confused. You mentioned regarding the detailed breakdown box that, "The Operator Cost is the addition of the CPU and I/O Costs." When...

No on the patches requiring downtime on the i Series. Same thing on the mainframe since the typical configuration allows for disk sharing across (up to) 32 separate boxes....

At my current job, we had a major application (our police department) running on the same DB2 i series box for 18 years. The box never went down for...

Thanks. If what I said appears to be a rant, I guess it is. And I could easily drift into a rant on the media for the reasons...

I love this kind of thing for several reasons. First, it can make sense in certain environments. Second, it helps make the individual employee have 'skin in the...

It isn't just production fire fighting during the holidays -- it also encompasses test support. My previous company (major financial services) would put a freeze on production changes starting...

True, the IT staff makes the difference, but the management makes the IT staff. Should you be in a hapless IT staff position with a Fortune 1000 company that...

Lynn

I normally don't follow up on these types of tracks, but I think what I was trying to say (and presumably what the other gentlemen was also trying to say)...

Perhaps I should have clarified what I said, "non-employees, non-citizen offshore residents' and used the conjunction "and" rather than a comma. This would have clearly stated a contractor working...

Eric ... I would heartily agree. Unfortunately, executives in publicly held companies listen to Wall Street, not the common sense from subordinates. If Wall Street says a particular...

The problem for most (if not all) bigger shops is offshore outsourcing. I had talks with my management (CTO level) concerning the risk of having non-employees, non-citizen offshore residents (meaning...

As a few respondents have mentioned, in regard to IT roles in general, larger organizations have to operate differently than smaller ones. When I worked for a global financial...

Just another clarification. When working in financial services, we had a security/audit policy that cube processing had to be done on the server, not on the client. Auditors...

I wasn't really addressing cube performance, per se. I was addressing generic physical DW design across most DBMS platforms. I am making an assumption based on the original...

The only thing I would want to clarify is the statement: "Fact tables wind up effectively being many-to-many joins between the various dimensions." In a sense, yes. But...