IT Blog Hi, my name is Brent Hansen and I am a software consultant manager at Embarcadero Technologies. I spend most of my days and weeks traveling the U.S. listening to DBAs, developers, architects and IT managers express their frustrations, challenges, and wishes about the software that runs their busines...
Blogroll, Database, Project Management IT Blog I wanted to follow up my previous blog and dig deeper into database server parameters. Today, there are a number of highly sensitive parameters within each DBMS that, depending on their value, can leave the databases or database servers vulnerable to various types of malicious activity. Somekey ...
Database Compliance, database tools, embarcadero IT Blog In speaking with customers lately, I am finding more and more attention spent on the lineage of data. It isn't enough these days to manage these type of complex movements and manipulations of data with spreadsheets. More often than not, I am finding customers asking for the golden nugget feature...
data lineage, visual data lineage, data modeling IT Blog Hi, my name is Brent Hansen and I am a software consultant manager at Embarcadero Technologies. I spend most of my days and weeks traveling the U.S. listening to DBAs, developers, architects and IT managers express their frustrations, challenges, and wishes about the software that runs their busines...
Blogroll, Database, Project Management IT Blog Theevolution of the DBA in the past 10 years is astounding. That evolution doesn't follow a linear growth pattern either. I would say it is more of an 89 degree angle. Every time I am speaking to a DBA team, I always ask who is managing less today than they were a year ago. And that ques...
Database, Database Management, Compliance IT Blog I recently made the leap of faith to Windows 7. The install was painless,butinstalling all the applications that I use on a daily basis is where the fun started. I am a week into my Windows 7 experienceandI'mstill trying to get my toolbox completely installed without conf...
IT Blog My upgrade to Windows 7 is complete! It is always the small things that hold the bigger projects up. And yes, my "small thing" caught me off guard. I use an air card for a lot of my customer presentations and low and behold it does not come packaged for Windows 7. Nor could I find the driver...
Windows 7, Database Management, Project Management IT Blog I recently made the leap of faith to Windows 7. The install was painless,butinstalling all the applications that I use on a daily basis is where the fun started. I am a week into my Windows 7 experienceandI'mstill trying to get my toolbox completely installed without conf...
IT Blog My upgrade to Windows 7 is complete! It is always the small things that hold the bigger projects up. And yes, my "small thing" caught me off guard. I use an air card for a lot of my customer presentations and low and behold it does not come packaged for Windows 7. Nor could I find the driver...
Windows 7, Database Management, Project Management IT Blog If you have read my last few blog posts, then you know that I was on vacation for most of December. I spent most of that time on a cruise ship. If you have ever been on any of the longer cruises then you know that you tend to spend a lot of time at sea while traveling from one port to another. Typi...
IT Blog IBM has a distinct problem with the System i: Getting the younger crowd excited about developing on the platform. You can call it by any name you want -- the AS/400, iSeries or System i, but it is the reputation of the platform as an ancient one that scares away kids who have been corn-fed Linux an...
IT Blog "IT governance IS about the money," said Michael Cohn, who currently heads up an eight-person IT governance committee at his accounting firm. "The IT governance committee should focus on the top initiatives that will bring the best ROI to the business," said Cohn. Atlast week's Babson College Ce...
IT Blog DIRECTIONS: These are real statements from real people discussing real technology in the blogosphere. I've removed one word from each quote. Can you still figure out what they're talking about? Click on the link to see if you're right! 1. Microsoft has warned corporate administrators that it will p...
IT Blog Sure, youve had SOA (service-oriented architecture) explained to you a hundred times. And you always think you understand it . . . for about five minutes. Then it starts to get fuzzy again. (At least, this is how I felt for a long time.) If youre in the same boat, read yesterdays entry on ...
IT Blog Recently I ran into this post from Arnon of DDJ fame which is in response to another response by Sam Gentile :-). I wrote about this in related posts a while back and this seems to be a recurring theme in many discussions. Seems like both are trying to say the same thing that "SOA is all about the b...
IT Blog If you have read my previous blog entries, then you know that I have been writing a lot lately about the next version of Windows, called Windows 7. Earlier this week though, Microsoft announced another Windows release named Windows Azure. I wanted to take the opportunity to clear up any potential c...
IT Blog I'm happy to announce the debut of Oracle Talk. Oracle Talk is our new biweekly podcast series all about Oracle database and applications management designed for DBAs, developers and managers of Oracle shops. Each half-hour episode focuses on a specific topic and features recent SearchOracle.com co...
Oracle database administration, Oracle development, Managing an Oracle shop IT Blog DIRECTIONS: These are real statements from real people discussing real technology in the blogosphere. I've removed one word from each quote. Can you still figure out what they're talking about? Click on the link to see if you're right! Then click your back button for another question. 1. _____...
IT Blog Our surveys have repeatedly shown that interest server virtualization is high and growing. However, there are detractors that urge caution. A detailed, informative conversation is going on about the pros and cons of virtualization over at Howard Roger's Dizwell Informatics blog. Howard himself is a...
Oracle database administration, Managing an Oracle shop IT Blog Ubuntu 7.04 is scheduled to launch this Thursday, and I think it's safe to say SearchEnterpriseLinux.com has it covered. Yesterday we posted a quick Q&A with Canonical's director of operations Jane Silber detailing the specifics of how the OS featured some additional server side components meant...
IT Blog It seems everyone is talking about communication. Zohair Chentouf sites three probable causes of workplace communication problems: overcommunication, hypocommunication, and miscommunication. On a personal finance blog I found a post about "The One Skill that Will Earn You Money No Matter What You D...
career development, training, IT careers IT Blog I just ran across a great Blog post by Jen McCown (Blog | Twitter) about breaking into speaking. Speaking is something that I never thought I would do or enjoy doing until I bit the bullet and I did it. My first time was at SQL Saturday #47 in Phoenix just two months ago. I loved doing it so much th...
IT Blog Is doing more with less, part of the simplicity mantra? Can you drive growth by thinking about the value of collaboration, and how collaboration and collaboration technologies can help do more with less? To answer these questions perhaps first do a bit of exploration. For example perhaps watch a web...
IBM, Software Quality, Inherent Quality IT Blog Apparently there are stilla lot of people who are trying to explain what Twitter is all about. WhatIs.com Associate Editor Alex Howard rounded up some of the A-list explanations, adding his own two cents to the conversation. Here's mine. What is Twitter? Twitter is the electronic equivalent of ...
IT Blog Microsoft has just created a new Windows 7 video blog called Talking About Windows. This blog is geared toward IT professionals. It features videos from the engineers who built Windows 7 providing their insight into the operating system. It will also feature commentary from some IT professionals. Th...
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