Timothy,

I agree with you in this regard. Data lacking any personal character, any possibility for compromising the physical or intellectual property of a business or other human institution, or...

Sam,

The points you make with respect to the convenience of using the cloud as a mechanism for continuous, 24/7 operation and distribution of data to business partners are compelling from...

Timothy,

I think the cloud has a role for any company that deals with the public through the Internet. In fact, if you have a website, you are in the...

This is not just a United States issue; it is global. European law is far more restrictive than the United States with respect to what is private and what...

Incidentally, I work in the IT industry. My truly little company focuses on reclaiming e-mail privacy and providing consulting services for companies that lack planning for the preservation and...

We will likely never use cloud computing for a number of reasons, most of which are legal issues. Many of these issues go back to the Electronic Communications Privacy...

Been there, done that. In the early 1990s, I was confronted with a situation in which I discovered that the two highest paid officers of the company for which...

There is no doubt that salary is a powerful component in the equation that leads to accepting the terms of employment or passing on them. What I am saying...

Of course it's disputable. The fact remains, however, that transparency does not ensure that one party comes to the table with the same honesty or mutuality of goals as...

The desire for full disclosure of salaries depends on at least two unspoken assumptions. First, it is assumed that salaries are a contemporaneous barometer of the value of the...

Not unless you have a death wish.

The problem with the disclosure of personal compensation is that it is a reflection more often than not of the imperfection of...

Why not just group the records according to the year of the date?  The query would look somthing like this:

SELECT Year(dateField), Count(*) FROM tableName

GROUP BY Year(dateField)

This will return a count...