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While some languages are so terse that they look like a hex dump, SQL is actually one of the more verbose, yet it still manages to be one of the...
April 7, 2009 at 10:04 am
This is not the difference between a Developer and a DBA, it is the difference between Developers and Support. Some DBA's do development work, even if most are in a...
April 6, 2009 at 2:50 am
In that case, I suppose I must retract my earlier criticism of your analogy - I still think that the comparison wasn't very close, but the point of an analogy...
April 2, 2009 at 9:54 am
that is why training and familiarization, disaster drills, etc. come in handy
Thinking about it further, I think you have stumbled on the biggest difference - both Fire and Ambulance...
April 2, 2009 at 9:33 am
Jack Corbett (4/2/2009)
Yeah, but it was published on April 1st and in the April 1st newsletter.
Yeah, but here in the UK, the April 1st newsletter doesn't arrive until the morning...
April 2, 2009 at 9:23 am
Interesting analogy, but I'm afraid that is simply isn't true.
Recent studies have shown that well trained personnel (I think it was Incident Controller, aka Lead Fireman specifically) simply do...
April 2, 2009 at 8:40 am
Very Lame.
And it's not even 1st April now.
April 2, 2009 at 5:09 am
Well personally speaking, if I heard: "DBAs ... see all the data that is available" I think I would be giving you some 'stimulus'
A good DBA should have no idea...
March 4, 2009 at 3:39 am
These days most cars ARE fairly modular.
When the manufacturer introduces a new bodyshell, the running gear remains the same as the last model.
A year or two later the engines get...
January 27, 2009 at 6:49 am
At the very least, it must count as 'Personally Identifying Data' so all of the limits of the Data Protection Act would count (in the UK). Note that one of...
January 13, 2009 at 3:33 am
Is no one else going to point out that the results of this process are flawed: the first four values are given as zero, which is just plain wrong! (One...
November 27, 2008 at 7:40 am
I am not entirely sure what kind of checks you are referring to, but I have worked in some organisations where none of the checks rely on automatic monitorring, and...
November 21, 2008 at 2:29 am
Another well-documented case is that of Shirley McKie
Not only does this show that things can go wrong, but how hard it can be to prove your side of the story,...
November 11, 2008 at 7:02 am
Actually, we do know many of the security holes, but the vendors generally like to ignore them, describing them as 'impossible' and so forth.
I don't have a reference to hand,...
November 10, 2008 at 5:07 am
Yes, very 'Powerful' stuff indeed.
Round here, 'Powerful' is always regarded as a synonym for 'Dangerous' and I don't think this article disproves that point!
November 6, 2008 at 3:27 am
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