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In an interview, should you give the right answer or the one expected by Oracle? If the interviewer doesn't understand why Oracle are wrong - perhaps you don't want...

Heh... so a DBA doesn't need to know what a Clustered Index is???

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You have to ask advanced people the simple stuff first or your going to hire an idiot. ...

I'd just like to point out that some of the greatest inventions in IT history were started by a couple of people - who were supposed to be working on...

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That "dog mode" feature is interesting, but even then I don't think it will necessarily prevent your vehicle from attracting unnecessary attention. I have tethered my dog to a shaded...

There are privacy focused browsers now that will route your traffic through a VPN and also will clean cookies as soon as you navigate to a different website.

At least now they're now telling you what they plan to do with your data - assuming you choose to continue using the service.

While organizations must take steps to protect their data from external threat actors, they must also not overlook internal privileged actors. For example, we've probably all heard about the Joel Greenberg...

"..Getting everyone in a region together a few times a year is a really interesting idea. It will feel like a SQL Saturday or other event when you know everyone...

That is a very good point, Eric. I like that approach. I suspect that for the near future (<= 5 years) it might be best to do that...

A good feature to compliment Always Encrypted.

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That left me with wondering, is IaaS the preferred approach by people adopting a cloud presence, whether that's fully cloud based or mixed? And if IaaS is the...

Because T-SQL is a declarative and domain specific language (SQL Server), it leads to code that's easy to hold in one's head. However, one area where it has a disadvantage...

It's kind of awkward when the interviewer knows the candidate is faking it. The sooner you confess to not knowing something, then the sooner you can move on to the...

I havn't been a  candidate for several years, but one thing I do during a technical interview is ask for an example of what challenges the team encountered on a...

Automation scripts are also good for documentation and certification. For example, if you can codify your month end process into a single script using a high level language like PowerShell,...