Monthly Archives: May 2011

Cascading Human Error

I caught this short piece on the Amazon EC2 outageand while it does highlight a potential problem in the world of the cloud, there was one part of it that really stuck out to me. This quote in particular was … Continue reading

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Foreign Keys Help Performance

I have always put FKs into my database for data integrity purposes. I’ve worked on enough applications that didn’t have FKs, or any RI in place and it was always a nightmare when the application broke down or there were … Continue reading

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The Intelligence Cloud

I was thinking to call this the “Military Intelligence Cloud” but no one would believe it was true. Apparently the US Air Force has awarded a contract to build an intelligence platform that will allow different branches of the military … Continue reading

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