blandry (12/2/2010)

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A friend in the business and I were talking recently about BI and data analysis. He works for a very large manufacturing company that recently spent a King's...

grahamc (11/23/2010)

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At some of the companies that I worked at in the past (UK), they loved these things. For the server/network admins especially. These guys spent a lot of time...

Great timing! Last night there was a documentary covering this issue. The info page is http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2010/digitaldummies/index.html and it looks like you can view the episode on line.

The take-away...

richj-826679 (11/18/2010)

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How many of you have implemented/installed software that "requires" one or more of the following to work:

1) "sa" as the login

2) Default unchangeable login names that can...

Perhaps it's my blue-collar heritage, but I don't really have all that much concern for how management deals with security issues. I tell them what little I know, tell them...

My biggest concern with this is a false sense of security. Between bad implementations or worse, poorly thought out systems, it seems that we're being inundated with 'security' that is...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/12/2010)

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Some interesting "get there from here" possibilities are coming to mind. Imagine that we allow self-driving cars, but only for < 15mph. Perhaps you could...

I don't know if we'll ever get there, but it wouldn't surprise me. However, I don't think we'll get there by taking a big leap the way most people seem...

I've used a couple of different ORM products, but no NHibernate. My major concern is similar to yours: there may be nothing preventing you from using them robust database designs,...

Eric Russell 13013 (11/2/2010)

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Ron Porter (11/2/2010)

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Tobar (11/2/2010)

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A germaine aside to water reserves - if for whatever...

Tobar (11/2/2010)

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A germaine aside to water reserves - if for whatever reason water is no longer...

thisisfutile (11/2/2010)

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Ron Porter (11/2/2010)

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Are there risks? Certainly. Are we losing something? Probably. There are risks associated with not keeping our own gardens and livestock and we lose a specific kind...

OCTom (11/2/2010)

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What I truly do not understand is the need to be connected constantly in one's life. I view it as a kind of mass societal mental disease. There are...

I think that the Internet is just one more step along the 'just in time' path. So much of what we've done over the last several thousand years has been...

GPO (11/1/2010)

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If it was your job to design these tables, would you be tempted to have an end_date_time column that could not be null, and instead substitute a ridiculous future...