Social Commentary

SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition High Availability

With all the announcements about SQL Server 2014 this last week there have been a lot of questions about what’s going to happen for SQL Server 2014 and the non-shared storage High Availability options as we are now one step closer to database mirroring being removed from the product. ...

Two Factor Authentication Shouldn’t Depend on One Factor

Bank of America has decided to implement two factor authentication on their website when doing specific things like adding a remote account to transfer money to, or when doing a wire transfer (basically anything where money is going to leave the account). So far...

Write about what you care about. If you do the page views will happen.

Ask any SEO "expert" and they'll tell you to write stuff that'll get you lots of page views, to use key words to lure people in.  The problem with this approach is that you end up not writing about the stuff that people want to read week over week, month over month. Now getting people to show...

Advertising != Engaging

Some people just really don't get social media. Recently a twitter account which belongs to a SQL Server training company who based on their website is a legit company. In what I can assume was supposed to be an advertising campaign they completely ruined their social media standing, and in 7...

Keeping Your Speaking Commitments

Many event organizers are way too polite to publicly admit that this problem exists as badly as it does.  But a problem has been showing up way to much recently.  The problem which I speak of is session speakers not showing up for their sessions, and the even bigger problem of speakers not...

When Designing Logon Systems, Pay More Attention To Password Questions.

In recent months the Internet has started to wake up to security just a little bit more, and probably forgotten all about it as well (read this,

Blog Year 2012 In Review

Welcome my friends to the first official work day of the year 2013.  You enjoying that hangover yet?

Why More People Should Be Working From Home

As database professionals there isn't much of a reason that we actual need to go into the office, other than to make other people in the office feel better because we are actually there in person.  In practice we don't ever need to actually touch the physical hardware.  Meeting can easily enough...

The world does not revolve around cloud computing or coding.

Back on August 28th another ITKE poster wrote a blog post titled "The elephant not in the room" in which they talk about how if you want to work in IT in the future you better plan on working at one of...

What to do when your Twitter account gets hacked

On occasion Twitter accounts get hacked and are used to send out spam to other twitter followers, usually via Direct Message. When your twitter account is taken over there are two different things that you need to do in order to get your account back under your control. The first is pretty...