Gary Varga (10/31/2016)

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The UK has a strong history of democracy. Imperfect, faltering and long standing.

Currently, it is often suggested that today a Guy Fawkes would be celebrated as a martyr...

Really? Microsoft focused more on profit than good products?...

jasona.work (9/29/2016)

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djackson 22568 (9/29/2016)

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jasona.work (9/29/2016)

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The thing to remember about the MTBF numbers is, it's a Mean, not an absolute. So you could have (using Daves' RAID-5 example) 3 SSDs...

jasona.work (9/29/2016)

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The thing to remember about the MTBF numbers is, it's a Mean, not an absolute. So you could have (using Daves' RAID-5 example) 3 SSDs in a RAID-5...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/29/2016)

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djackson 22568 (9/29/2016)

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Interesting comment about how SSDs might not be susceptible to this.

SSDs have a limited number of writes. Hard drive life is measured...

Interesting comment about how SSDs might not be susceptible to this.

SSDs have a limited number of writes. Hard drive life is measured differently, MTBF. I would be interested...

Iwas Bornready (9/26/2016)

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Pictures. I like pictures. If you can draw me a map of the big picture, then break down each section into smaller pictures, that helps me a lot...

I find that hard to believe. I know that the...

My favorite? It depends.

For pure understanding I prefer classroom lecture. Sometimes I prefer written documentation for those topics that can be explained that way.

For how to, I prefer...

Jeff Moden (9/22/2016)

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Sean Redmond (9/22/2016)

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I wonder how attractive a 10x programmer (or DBA in this case) would be to a manager. Sure, it's great to have a person that does...

Jeff Moden (9/21/2016)

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Thank you for...

Iwas Bornready (9/19/2016)

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"Given the state of questions I see asked on SQLServerCentral and other sites, it definitely seems that there are plenty of developers being paid to produce poorly written...

There are definitely people who are better at what they do than others in their field. It isn't just programmers or DBAs.

However, 10x comes across as "more quantity", and...

Rod at work (9/16/2016)

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I find this somewhat sudden interest in statistics interesting. I got my degree in mathematics, so naturally I took some statistics classes. For most of my life...

Gary Varga (9/15/2016)

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djackson 22568 (9/15/2016)

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Eric M Russell (9/15/2016)

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But going back to Steve's editorial, organizations need to implement application level encryption (ie: PGP for emails) and database level encryption rather than...