I work for a SW company that is responsible for all sorts of clinical and financial data for nursing homes. You know those places that you stuff grandma and grandpa...

I have my own personal website that is more focused on politics than technical issues.

I have about zero visitors. I implemented a captcha system and I still get about 10-15...

jarick 15608 (4/24/2014)

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I've seen a lot of packages with a requirement of using the SA login for the install. If I had any say, that would be the...

Another thing we did at our last company when we consolidated databases on SQL instances is that we (I was part of the networking team) also basically created a DNS...

I've introduced more manager to the following:

You always have choice:

1. Cheap

2. Fast

3. ...

Jeff Moden (4/11/2014)

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The title of the article is "How Long Before You Upgrade"? I think a better question/title might be "How long before you change to a newer version"?...

I was brought into my current company as a production/support DBA on the help desk. Until then I hadn’t seen how the development side works.

The SW was clinical and...

Eric M Russell (4/8/2014)

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Every industry has it's own risks, so each needs a somewhat different set of regulations. I've worked in banking, back in the 1990's before Sarbanes–Oxley. I've also...

Eric M Russell (4/8/2014)

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I hate to say it, but the only way we're every going to see any industry wide application of standard data security policies is through government regulation...

Cody K (4/7/2014)

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In the teams I've worked on, customers (whether internal or external) have always been able to sniff out who is competent or incompetent and use them as a...

Jeff Moden (4/7/2014)

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I have to disagree a bit with the aspect of not saying anything if someone doesn't meet expectations. There's no doubt that not everyone on a Team...

The indexing was bad. What little maintenance plans were in place had no re-indexing and such...

My prior company was an end user of SW (a bank that used delivered SW for our major apps). When I walked in the door we had about ten servers...

Cody K (3/31/2014)

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I think I'd have started looking for a new job at that point. I'm in my 30s. I might make mistakes but to treat a job like a...

I look at the DBA roles as generally the production or support role. Then the development DBA's and a small chunk of QA DBA roles.

The support DBA works on the...