I'm quite fond of this XKCD from last month:

I think AI has a lot of benefits to offer: they've proven IBM's Watson to be very helpful in medical diagnosis and...

I'm a fan of TextPad[/url], they claim "It can handle file sizes up to the largest contiguous chunk of 32-bit virtual memory.". I've been using it for years, especially...

Eric M Russell (2/11/2016)

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They ten years was their estimate to replace the entire system. It shouldn't take even one year just to upgrade their network and patch security holes. Typical...

It's very rare that...

For years I've read that table as part of my nightly maintenance.

Rich Mechaber (2/9/2016)

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... Kidding aside, there's a case to make that a paper ballot with checkboxes, dropped through a slot into a locked box watched by moderators, is a great...

But if our voting history isn't public, how will our corporate overlords know that we voted for the correct candidate? :w00t: I'm kinda flashing back on those joyous times...

David.Poole (2/9/2016)

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If you work in IT the chances are that you are above average intelligence.

If you have an IT department of 100 people then that is 100 above average brains...

Ed Wagner (2/8/2016)

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Jack Corbett (2/8/2016)

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Steve,

Good editorial as usual. I think you sum it up well in the last paragraph:

The mark of a good manager is that they...

There's an American company that introduced a flat baseline salary of $75,000 -- janitors, receptionists, programmers, managers -- everyone. The concept behind it was that if you're not making...

A SQL Server database is not just a file, it has a very complex internal structure. I think most non-DBAs don't appreciate this. They think a file is...

I had an account at a bank that implemented a new online banking system. I had to set a new password. My normal form, especially for banking, the...

alicesql (2/2/2016)

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I really appreciate all the work that presenters put into their presentations. I hope that someday I live somewhere where I can take advantage of events like SQL Saturday,...

I did it on a very beefy box with SQL 2008 Enterprise and LOTS of memory. Licensing, as always, is a consideration. I was very careful with my...

It's generally considered not a good practice to install SQL Server, or at least the system databases and log files, on C:. It's possible for SQL or the OS...