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"I will be interested to know whether this is a very common approach of designing an architecture"
In my experience it doesn't seem that uncommon in old applications, but it really...
November 1, 2024 at 5:38 pm
My ~30 year career in IT has been with a company whose products are not software. In that kind of environment I've worked with many people without degrees who were...
November 1, 2024 at 5:25 pm
My employment record is a bit of an outlier in that I have close to 30 years in IT at the same employer. Part of that longevity can be attributed...
October 25, 2024 at 4:46 pm
For home sound system receivers I typically go with Yamaha. Excellent sound, but their interfaces are probably the most nonintuitive and cryptic you will ever find where the directions are...
October 21, 2024 at 6:06 pm
As somebody who spent a good chunk of his adult life in IT supporting the paper industry, I can say that per capita paper consumption is down dramatically from previous...
October 4, 2024 at 3:55 pm
That is an application (or application client) running local on the server with SQL. The "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" indicates it is running as a service as Local System. Looking through the...
September 27, 2024 at 4:41 pm
I don't think a linked server to SAP HANA is an option. At least is wasn't for us. I forget weather it was performance issues or that SAP just wouldn't...
September 27, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Been a few years since I've done a multi-restore version upgrade, but there was a couple years where it happened often enough that I had a virtual box spun up...
July 8, 2024 at 4:05 pm
My employer standardizes on Dell for everything. Aside from the "Dell Tax" the only complaints I've ever had with them are a spat of bad batteries 5-6 years ago which...
June 17, 2024 at 4:16 pm
We were in on the Beta for the managed instances service as we had several groups quite excited about it. Having just completed a lift and shift of five datacenters...
May 28, 2024 at 4:43 pm
My current home / work setup is dual LG 27" monitors attached to a KVM switch connected to my home and work laptops (monitors are running at 1080 so not...
May 10, 2024 at 5:42 pm
If your cloud is Azure.....
Another thing to look at is weather you are exceeding the maximum I/O throughput threshold for either the VM or the destination disk for your backups. ...
May 6, 2024 at 6:44 pm
"A common theme is that there is a minimum number of people needed for a support rota. Below that and you risk burn-outs and resignations."
Definitely. In the 2007-2009 timeframe our...
May 3, 2024 at 5:33 pm
Our DBA team supports 24/7 production facilities so we definitely have an on call rotation. We organize our systems so each has a primary and backup DBA. When an after...
May 3, 2024 at 3:36 pm
Because my company operates manufacturing facilities (many 24-6 or 24-7 operations) across time zones, after hours work is part of the job description. It's a known quantity going in and...
March 18, 2024 at 4:26 pm
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