I Want This Project Done Properly, Done Quickly, and Done Cheap
This is the standard requirement that I get from a lot of clients. Sadly those three requests aren’t going to go well together. In IT (and really in anything) you have to pick two: Done Properly Done Fast Done Cheap If you want something done properly and done fast it isn’t going to be cheap. […]
Recommended reading from mrdenny for January 31, 2014
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. CodeSOD: A Careless Merge Clearing the ARP cache table in ESXi 5.5 The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer ZFS & MySQL – Using Open Source On the Demise of the MCM Certification […]
eForensics Magazine SQL Server Issue
The digital magazine “eForensics Magazine” has put together their 1st issue talking specifically about SQL Server security. There are articles written by a bunch of SQL Server experts including the two articles which I have in the issue. There’s a free teaser of the issue which you can download as well (it’s down at the […]
Log Shipping Databases and Permissions Problems
Recently I was doing log shipping for a client in preparation to move their databases from one data center to another, when I was asked to change the drive that one of the target databases was being restored to. No problem, I’ll just use ALTER DATABASE … MODIFY FILE (name=’xxx’, filename=’yyy’) to change the files, […]