Black boxes. I was taught at University by the person this term was named after.

http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/home/copelandcrack-1.681091/who-really-invented-the-black-box-1.745517#

Did you know your steering wheel's on the wrong side ?

Ok, thanks. Interesting how things don't change - plus ca change, etc.

Hmmmm........... I thought they relocated to Hollywood because the weather was so much better they had far more filming time.

'It's something that should be scheduled and automated.'

True, if you have the window to do it - not always possible without affecting the system's usage.

You may well be right and it could be entirely necessary. I was commenting on the particular article that prompted this thread, which suggested that it wasn't necessary, and observed...

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This debate ran in Oracle a few years ago and the same conclusions were reached as seems to be the case in Sql Server - except in a very few...