Database Maintenance and ColumnStore Indexes

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Recently on Twitter I saw a question about what index maintenance you should be doing on your ColumnStore Indexes when it comes to maintenance. As I looked through DCAC’s blog posts I realized that none of us had blogged about this topic before.

The reason for this is pretty basic, there’s real…READ MORE

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What is a ‘living’ application?

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Essentially open source Business Process Management (BPM) software company Bonitasoft has introduced its Bonita 7.7 iteration release.

This is BPM software with Intelligent Continuous Improvement (ICI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) capabilities.

The company says that its ICI play here is a rou…READ MORE

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Deleting folders based on month name

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An interesting problem around deleting folders based on month name.

You have a folder structure that looks like this:
C:\Testdata\2011\08-Aug
C:\Testdata\2011\09-Sep
C:\Testdata\2011\10-Oct
C:\Testdata\2011\11-Nov
C:\Testdata\2011\12-Dec
C:\Testdata\2012\01-Jan
C:\Testdata\2012\02-Feb
C:\…READ MORE

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Tech startups can be the creation of anyone intimate with a business challenge

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A bit off the fintech trail but an interesting story that demonstrates how identifying a genuine business need, and being close to it, is all it takes to spark a startup.

Obviously that is only the beginning and there are incredible challenges after that, such as funding, but the story I am going…READ MORE

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Cloud security: Weighing up the risk to enterprises

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In this guest post, Chris Hodson, chief information security officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at internet security firm Zscaler, takes a closer look at why cloud security remains such an enduring barrier to adoption for so many enterprises. 

Cloud computing is growing in use acr…READ MORE

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Why all the fuss about AI?

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What happens when you put modern processing power and data storage and reliable communications to cloud based services behind 40 year old AI processes, repackage the results to get protection under US IPR law and then add a flow of press releases from academics hungry for research funds, start-ups h…READ MORE

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The military strategy behind cyberattacks and how they're designed

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Cyberwarfare can devastate economies with connected infrastructure. Military strategy uses such attacks because they’re hard to defend against and very cost-effective.

The Allies bombed German ball-bearing plants in World War II because destroying them would degrade the German production of tanks…READ MORE

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DHS cybersecurity rhetoric offers contradictions at DEF CON

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The Vote Hacking Village at Defcon 26 in Las Vegas was an overwhelming jumble of activity — a mock vote manipulated, children hacking election results websites, machines being disassembled — and among it all were representatives from local and federal government, learning and sharing information a…READ MORE

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It's summer, so spring 2019 is booking up fast

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What a season of technology events this is.

Well, to be clear, what a season of technology events awaits us through the ‘fall’ period in 2018.

All the tech symposia and conference proceedings about to take place have a healthy dose of keynotes, breakout sessions, hackathons, Proof of Concept (…READ MORE

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DRaaS Magic Quadrant shrinks; Microsoft, iland lead the way

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Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for disaster recovery as a service made 13 vendors disappear.

Gartner also thoroughly shuffled the deck among the remaining DRaaS Magic Quadrant survivors. Besides shrinking from 23 entrees in 2017 to 10 in 2018, the leaders quadrant dropped from five last year to tw…READ MORE

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Win10 Version 1809 Makes Official Debut

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Windows 10 Insider Preview releases have been flying thick and fast recently. On August 10, we saw Build 17735. On August 14, Build 17738. And on August 17, 17741. That’s three in an 8-day period. The latest build — 17741 — also has another distinguishing characteristic. It shows that Win10 Versio…READ MORE

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TechTarget's weekly roundup (8/13 - 8/20)

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Have you seen trends in the type of malware or attacks being attempted on your organization? Check out what one expert has noticed in malware/ransomware code in this week’s roundup.

1. Amanda Rousseau talks about computer forensics investigations – Michael Heller (Sea…READ MORE

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Building inclusive teams gets more attention from CIOs

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Conversations about gender and racial equality aren’t just happening in the political and social sphere, they’re also happening in the C-Suite. Kristi Lamar, managing director and U.S. CIO program leader at Deloitte, said interviews with business and IT executives for a recently published CIO survey…READ MORE

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Commas and introductory phrases

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_______ Active Directory enables single sign-on capabilities for Microsoft apps, such as Office 365 and Dynamics CRM.

A. In addition,
B. In addition

Answer: A

A comma should be used after common introductory phrase to give the reader a slight pause. This pause after an introductory ele…READ MORE

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The Introvert vs Extrovert struggle

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Over the last 7 years, I’ve recorded over 400 podcasts (here, here), visited 100s of companies, spoken publicly at dozens of events and have been a spokesperson at my job. After many years in the industry, talking about technology in public is not a fear. Sometimes there is a perception that doing t…READ MORE

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Use a patient approach with healthcare APIs

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With this week’s news that healthcare interoperability is getting a boost from the support of six major tech companies, it’s tempting to think that is where the breakthroughs are going to happen.

But it could be that the grass roots efforts at hundreds of hospitals around the country might b…READ MORE

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Australian e-commerce company shrugs off US behemoths with cloud move

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Australia’s eCorner has signed a deal with Macquarie Cloud Services to help it use public cloud services to fend off growing competition from larger US providers.

The Sydney-based e-commerce technology and hosting provider was founded in 2003 as the master distributor for ePages, a European e-com…READ MORE

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The Work Interrupt

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Two of my heroes of software development are Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister, the authors of PeopleWare. Thirty-one years ago, they pointed out that humans working together are the important part of delivery — more than the code or the hardware. In addition to designing respectful office spaces and gett…READ MORE

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Cybersecurity risk management doesn’t need to be all or nothing

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Cybersecurity risk management should be a concern for organizations of all sizes. New threats and data breaches make the news every few days. But as vendors and cybersecurity risk management consulting firms can attest, far too many companies still lag behind when it comes to implementing safeguard…READ MORE

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How solid state disks (SSD) can save money and boost performance

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SSD’s are the one of the most expensive storage devices when measured by the GB but they are the least expensive when measured in terms of IOPs.

Using SSD in addition to tradition fibre channel and SATA drives can significantly improve the performance of your storage systems and bring your storag…READ MORE

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