Clive Strong (8/29/2009)

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I stumbled across a blog a few days ago which directed me to a slide show by the chief data architect from MySpace.

Take a look at the slide...

I've noticed mac makes servers. Do people actually use these things? I've never ran into an environment with a mac server. As much as I love my macbook, I...

That's the one thing I don't like about Mac, the price. It can be argued that macbooks are built with higher quality than most PC laptops. But price of Macs...

Wow. Thanks for the good article to read this morning.

I can't even imagine a 312TB database let alone Petabytes.

I wonder what it takes for these organization to maintain these databases....

I know the large databases you can do stuff like partitioning tables or creating many filegroups to increase speed, storage and increase flexibility with backups.

However is it possible that these...

I thnk the zoo will be awesome to take pictures on my new Nikon D90 DSLR 😎

Thanks, totally forgot about La Jolla. I want to check out Del Mar too. We'll try that restaurant if it's there.

I couldn't agree...

I also started out as a software tester. I was an intern at Hewlett Packard during my college days and getting real DBA experience was impossible.

The only experience I could...

I tihnk the answer to this is a matrix. I didn't know that existed in ssrs.... gonna play around with it.

GSquared (8/4/2009)

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It sounds like you've got a good start on it.

To keep going, just keep one thing in mind: You'll get out of it what you put into it.

If you...

Jack Corbett (8/4/2009)

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Elliot definitely gave you some good advice. My experience has been that you need to find a mentor and the best way to do that is to...

Steve Jones - Editor (8/4/2009)

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Honestly I think you're on your way, but to tackle more types of issues, do what you just did. Post on forums, or answer questions. Solve...

cppwiz (8/4/2009)

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My advice is to build a broader base of knowledge before advancing into specialty areas. Now that you have learned the "Microsoft way", see how other databases operate....

yeah what he did was really cool....