Bill Nicolich (12/18/2012)

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One consequence that I'm exploring here a little is that techies themselves can become less-well-rounded and then fail at team-based design and loose voice within the wider business...

Thanks for a very thought-provoking piece. I was once an Anthropology major and many things you said about a wider definition of cultural events as technologies resonated strongly with...

Mad Hacker (12/13/2012)

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My brother works for a call center and whenever the area is threatened by a hurricane, they fly their critical support staff and their families to St. Louis...

A good point and one that...

My company is in New Jersey and lost power during Hurricane Sandy. We had a meticulous business continuation plan and our colocation site had us up and running...

As usual, Steve got me to think about an old thing in a new way.

We are all unique and irreplacable beings, and that's a good thing--except when you're responsible for...

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How can you tell whether a Linked Server is read only. I looked for a 'read-only' flag and...

@majorbloodnock:

Sorry, I wasn't clear. (My fault!) I didn't mean to exclude the common PS, NB, EG, et cetera, those are useful and widely understood. ...

Paul G-468777 (11/20/2007)

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There is a whole group of people coming behind who believe things like "words should only mean what the speaker intended them to mean" (yes, I have...

"Better, faster, cheaper--pick two" is certainly a reality in our world and in any engineering discipline.

But we can do better, I think, in putting more emphasis on the DESIGN phase...

Try this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bstcxhf7(v=VS.85).aspx

All the methods, properties, and lots of examples.

I don't see good outcomes in the future for our privacy concerns. The use of the web is so financially compelling for corporations that they *must* use it to...

As it turns out, you were right, it was intensive I/O slowing it down, but it was from a tape backup job being run this morning b/c of the Labor...

1 - Case Mgmt Production D/B with 3 daily full automated backups on disk, plus hourly transactions backup onto disk. Nightly backups to tape. Month end and year...