Until GitHub gets compromised. Don't laugh, it can (and probably will) happen.

The only solution that's truly effective is offline archiving, but of course the problem with archiving is the enormous...

I prefer single-character-per-word aliases myself. But that brings up the subject of collisions. Some queries have insane joined table counts and when you have [ATM] and [Audit] in the same...

For a whole host of reasons fingerprint reader security DOES NOT EXIST. Just forget using fingerprints. Full stop.

Passwords are the worst possible security mechanism--except for all the rest. 🙂

2FA is...

Sounds like the Japanese industrial process known as Kaizen.

A single hour is negligible. We have a 90 minute response time, but internal operations would suffer very little, employees would simply switch to non-computer tasks (of which there are...

I can't argue we need better security, but I will argue we (as an industry, and even we as humans) do not understand the security domain--period. Thus we can't secure...

In today's cloud world vendor lock-in is an issue with most stored procedures being DB platform specific (MSSQL vs PLSQL vs MySQL).  Having to deploy an additional server...

First, what David Poole said. 🙂

In my career I've been primarily a lone wolf developer. Meaning I've had to be ruthless in finding every trick to lessen my workload. Databases...

And yet we rush to the cloud, increasing our attack surface to an unimaginable degree.

The basic problem is two fold. One, the whole problem is far too complex. Developers pile...

Your examples simply point out the wrong questions were being asked. Of course if you leave later you tend to be late. Unless, of course, the intent of the question...

amen to customers screwing up CSV files, adding columns etc.  🙂

and I get the  difference in import format files (csv, XML etc) and that you have to create new...

Actually, you can...

Actually, you can cheat a...

Yep, everyone knows rule #1 of The Culture. 🙂

Steve, remember the importance of Me time. Sometimes tech types are a little OCD and focus too hard on the new shiny...

Playing devil's advocate for a moment, perhaps we're nearing the point of public backlash. They are already starting to come down hard on data being collected, it wouldn't take much...