Unfortunately, not enough rule/law/regulation was set to require business and government to protect people, both employees or customers, in dealing with requirements of protecting data as a general business practice.

There...

I have recruiters contact me at least once a week. Of those, probably 3-5 per month are good fits for my experience/skillset.

My job I'm at now is really good....

This will be amazingly helpful to setup the configuration at home as I begin to study for the MCSA SQL Server 2014 Certification.

I am resitting the 461 and...

I think you upgrade either a) when it's needed, or b) when you have sufficient resources and time to do it without causing a disruption in your operations to gain...

Oh dear...I feel someone...

I'm always careful. I avoid every mistake I can as much as possible, while working to meet a given deadline.

I still have bugs, and there are even still deployment...

Eric M Russell (8/19/2015)

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jckfla (8/19/2015)

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Eric M Russell (8/19/2015)

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So, I'm guessing SOX regulators required them to have an alternate business continuity process...

Eric M Russell (8/19/2015)

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So, I'm guessing SOX regulators required them to have an alternate business continuity process on standby. In the...

Eric M Russell (8/18/2015)

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I think IT folks in general have...

Sounds like a typical case of where "risk mitigation" failed and cost lives.

Also sounds to me like not only faulty push mechanism in placing the new software/init files/parm files on...

GoofyGuy (8/13/2015)

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I find it interesting that we're now using the term "customer" for folks who aren't actually paying for service. A couple of years back we used to call those...

We're really careful about that. I (and the founders) made a decision early on to not take money to sell data. We turned down lots of money over the years....

There's also the data aggregation business that comes along with it. That in itself has become a huge revenue stream for the biggest of the sites on the...

jay-h (8/11/2015)

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Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach ranks at the top of my book list. Entertaining and inter-related dissertations on...

John Hanrahan (8/11/2015)

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Scotty did say that but it was to Geordi LaForge (not sure on spelling) when he was on Star Trek Next Gen. I only remember this because...