Fridays should be known as "No Install Fridays". How many Sat/Sun/Mons have been ruined by installing a new version of something on a Friday?

Unless I have fires to fight,...

As a solo DBA with 10 years more exp in other DBs and with less than a dozen servers with relatively small (<100GB total) and simple DBs, it makes sense...

bob.willsie (10/1/2009)

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When a suggestion was recently made to add end user department representatives the reply that came back, almost verbatim, was: "The purpose of the IT Steering Committee is for...

jcrawf02 (10/1/2009)

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Rich, both these cases are deficient in communication. If the focus was on the business priority, not the separate priorities for IT vs Business, then in Case 1, IT...

bob.willsie (10/1/2009)

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I say "baloney". If the most effective way to "get the right data into the right hands at the right time" is via a quick and dirty Access...

richj (7/2/2009)

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I'm not sure why one DB/instance would considered a limitation, but it should be noted that a database can have many instances ("instances per DB" instead of "DBs per...

Filipe Miranda (7/2/2009)

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Actually both statements are false.

In Oracle the user is not defined as unique in the instance, but unique in the database, as in SQL Server. Oracle's limitation of...

Nice article! Having gone the other direction (knowing Oracle and needing to support SS), something like this would've been helpful to me a few years ago. But I'd...