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The Cloud is Just a Tool

Posted on February 23, 2017 by way0utwest

The cloud is a term that’s full of hype. We hear from various media outlets all the time: the cloud is the answer, the cloud is cheaper, the cloud is the way of the future, the cloud handles your DR, … Continue reading →

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Moving Through Five Years

Posted on February 10, 2017 by way0utwest

I wrote the Five Year Plan in mid 2013. In it, I noted there was a prediction that IT departments wouldn’t exist in 5 years, meaning in mid 2018. That’s a year and a half away. Is that a possibility? … Continue reading →

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A Wide Variation in Skill

Posted on January 31, 2017 by way0utwest

I was helping someone recently clear up some confusion about the encryption structure of their TDE databases. This individual wasn’t sure about how the various keys were used, which ones needed to be backed up, and which keys needed to … Continue reading →

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The New DBA is a Developer

Posted on January 30, 2017 by way0utwest

I was reading a short piece from Mike Fal recently and it struck a chord with me. I started working with computers as a developer, really a hack programmer as a kid. Friends and I would build small games or … Continue reading →

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