Perhaps you need multiple types of internet. If so this might be useful

http://bloggerabroad.com/better-internet-abroad-load-balance/

Satellite reception can be a problem with heavy rain, although it's recommended to switch it...

Can you not get satellite internet?

Asheville NC, which is close to the Smoky mountains is about the same distance/time from the ocean as Leipzig is to the Baltic.

I lived in...

I'm interested to see how the discussion unfolds 5 years on. Is the point still valid given the growth of cloud computing. Incidentally where are cloud data...

Re: "I know a few companies that consider secondary systems to be critical and will actually fail over, and then run the other system for a few months, failing back...

Thanks for raising the issue, Steve.

It's something that needs to be kept in the public eye.

Data generation /creation is inevitable and so is capture. This...

Good idea, Miles.

Who knows, it might even turn out to be a more cost effective and better performing platform than what Henrik has at the moment.

Henrik, 3 days to...

It's a good point Steve, just like insurance. I hate paying exorbitant premiums but am always grateful that I did for the rare circumstance, where I need to...

I believe that the advent of cheap SSDs will make the distinction between RAM and disks somewhat blurred.

Portable devices have the potential to eliminate the need for workstations/laptops etc. ...

Death and taxes used to be the unavoidable things in life, now it's death, taxes and change. Another quote is that 95% of all scientific discoveries will be made...

I studied International Marketing and retrained as programmer after a few years work experience. Once in IT, my business background was a distinct advantage and I was running...

I am also interested in the answer to Item 1.

sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats will give you this information (and more), but only for individual database files, but I need it for each table...

How would I copy 300 tables from 1 database to another in parallel? I have 8 cpus, so presumably I could copy 8 tables at same time.

Is best...

Of course, I agree with you. Oracle Rdb Technical Forums do just what you want. This is a product, which Oracle bought from Digital Equipment in 1995 and...

In file cleanup job on sqlserver 2005, I get the following error

Executed as user: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string. [SQLSTATE 22007] (Error 241).

Any help...

malathi.mahadevan (5/5/2009)

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Wayne (and all), would love to hear some words of wisdom on future of DBA positions in the next 10-20 years. I am not talking of future of SQL...