Cloud in and of itself is perfectly fine and dandy and provides great flexibility, resiliency and decreases restore times (as opposed to hardware failure rebuilds or failed software updates).

What it...

I would love it if IBM used SQL Server as the database for Tivoli Netcool for storing all the monitoring data and the topology database.

I have experienced it using DB2...

dBase 4 was awesome with SQL. They couldnt talk to each other (or if...

Getting a base install up and running quickly should indeed be the goal of every off the shelf application (I am ignoring in house software quite deliberately).

I just wish it...

Jeff, that's such a cop out 🙂

Come on, show the color of your spandex...

As for me, Atomic Robo, has a lot more fun with technology that I ever do 😛

Only one thing to note, this stored proc is undocumented which means it may disappear suddenly after a service pack or in new versions.

Well, not quite every column that appears in the set line.. the trigger update function is restricted to a single column at a time, but you can chain them together...

I don't think you can put a known standard term "in context" in order to change it's agreed meaning.

Although I haven't read the research paper myself, after a couple of...

Although I got it correct, from the research I have done, no-one really knows what the B stands for.

It is never clearly defined by anyone.

One article I found has some...

I see where people are coming from, the example has no context and the reasoning behind the output is missing.

There would clearly have to be some business rules as to...

Although it does sound a little sloppy in the not clearing of memory once the process has finished using the password, I don't think it is that much of an...

Little Green B-tree - George Baker SELECTion

O' the puns, THE PUNS! *shakes fist in air*

-d

Really depends on my mood.

I prefer Trance and Progressive dance music; I dislike techno, which is a specific genre of dance music, so stop lumping all dance music under "techno"...

I may not be remembering this correctly, but is it correct that schemas also differ between Oracle and SQL Server as the schema is unique to the instance in Oracle...

A nice comfy pillow, decent climate control and a spa 😛

Maybe unrestricted access to the minibar 😉

And G, you're allowed to be demanding, it's fantasy 🙂