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  • RE: Deploy the Database First

    IMHO, I think this is a wise approach. We all know that the application code and the database are different. App code is generally easy to replace while database changes...

  • RE: The Cost of Switching

    David.Poole (1/24/2015)


    Andrew..Peterson (1/23/2015) Does anyone remember COBOL?

    Have you seen the contract rates for COBOL programmers!!!!!

    Do I remember COBOL? Everytime I look at a NOSQL document database.

    Exactly! Sometimes...

  • RE: The Cost of Switching

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/22/2015)


    Andrew..Peterson (1/21/2015)


    Steve, perhaps as the point person for SSC, you can start a petition (or similar) to MS to wake up. I'd like...

  • RE: R-E-S-P-E-C-T

    History is long about the endless battle between the factors of industry. The last 100+ years has been one where labor has been on the rise, but is now...

  • RE: The Cost of Switching

    First off - the features to be included and the eventual selling price are set by the marketing department & brand management. I've never seen a company where the...

  • RE: Hadoop and SQL Server

    Oh, and I have seen some demo's of where MS has done a great deal of work integrating Hadoop into the parallel data warehouse (old name). I would like...

  • RE: Hadoop and SQL Server

    While I was doing a project at Yahoo (2009), I was able to spend some time better understanding Hadoop - and the key IMHO, is that Hadoop is a tool...

  • RE: A Little Empathy

    Ah, yes, how true. Technology is just a tool, and end users just want it to work. Perhaps why so many users are switching to Mac's. (hint to...

  • RE: Citizen Programmers

    gregg_dn (12/11/2014)


    If developers gave users what they needed, most people would never attempt to write code.

    In an ideal world, users would have the tools they need, and the...

  • RE: Managerial Moneyball

    Isn't Moneyball about using data to improve the odds of picking and using individual contributors? So, to that end, I could see a large company, lets pick Google for discussion,...

  • RE: Always Canary

    Running DDL's against a production database is like changing a tire while the car is still moving. The data and the schema are so tightly integrated. In my old...

  • RE: How Often Does Production Drift?

    Change management is always an issue. And many of us, if we have had the DBA hat on, have had times that required a quick fix, one that could...

  • RE: The 2014 PASS Summit - Thursday

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/10/2014)


    Andrew..Peterson (11/10/2014)


    "There were more people looking to secure their systems, though a surprising number of people using TDE had never attempted a DR restore. Please,...

  • RE: The 2014 PASS Summit - Thursday

    "There were more people looking to secure their systems, though a surprising number of people using TDE had never attempted a DR restore. Please, please, do this. Make sure that...

  • RE: Pay It Forward

    What this really gets down to is that there are a few really good organizations, and quite a few poor ones. Good organizations use all the parts of their...

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