More than Degradable says.  If it is ransom on a Hospital and someone dies, it is MURDER!  It is ALL on the hackers heads.  This is why we have FBI...

So do you want the government to have a searchable database of all the flights taken?

If the airlines have to keep it, and the government can draw from it without...

I work for a multi national that has tried to automate and offshore all its servers.  We had a power blip.  The servers survived it.  The Air Conditioning system did...

Corporations allow the owners to have limited liability. That also makes the guys making the BIG money more casual about these problems. If someone took 100 million DOLLARS...

Correlation does not ensure causation.

Trend analysis is like a compass, it can help you go in the right direction, it does not save you when the road turns.

You...

I have worked with a lot of self taught and degreed graduates.

Those with degrees are usually more disciplined in the approach they take. They don't "Cowboy up".

I disagree on...

Don't forget the race to the bottom of the payroll scale. Where you had IT majors making good money before, now you have tech school grads and drop outs...

What is the most extreme case? You cannot lose a singe transaction when the earthquake hits.

Write up a solution that handles that, then scale out to EVERY table in...

The author bought it, the accountant should have gotten a note to put in on the purchase calendar.

Throw in some turnover or email conversions and it gets more fun.

Everything old is new again. Back in the day, I packed a machine with RAM, created a VDisk and assigned tempdb to the VDisk. The machine's performance jumped!

I...

It depends on how intermingled the changes are. If the applications are siloed, you can go fast.

If they depend on or update each other, it needs more than simple...

The hardest part for a non-trivial database is making sure the tables are built in the correct order to maintain RI. You can script out the table structures etc...

As a father with daughters, I worry about the indiscriminate abuse by single FBI agents. Let me cross reference birth control pills with condom purchases and bar patronage. ...