SQL Server Disaster Recovery Expo
Today June 17th, 9:00AM Pacific
The expo starts this morning at 9:00. If you are registered you can come right into the expo. I hope to see you there!
SelecTViews – Find out about business intelligence trend surveys, MySQL in the cloud…the latest news and your SQL Server BI tip for the day.
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SelecTViews – Meredith Ryan Smith on the show today, plus the latest news for the database world. Also, what do fingers have to do with injection and SQL Server? Find out on the show…
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What Would You Do With Worldwide High Speed Internet
Worldwide High Speed Internet is coming soon; depending on how you define worldwide. Wireless cell technology has been utilized for data for years. We are quickly passing the stage of early adopters and considering the capabilities for real time systems.
In the last five years I have been involved in two projects that weren’t possible without utilizing broader internet access. Both projects were designed around tools that allow remote users to maintain data in a central database.
With data synchronization technologies these systems could have been written using small mobile platforms. In that scenario you have to maintain a local data store, synchronize the data with the central data store, and maintain, potentially, two applications for addressing the data.
With the advent of reasonable internet bandwidth over the air, we were able to write a single web application with more functionality. Screens fitting the small form factor of portable devices were created in less than the time required to write the software managing data synchronization without the internet. In this case, using Model/View/Controller we were able to leverage the Model and Controller for both form factors, and only required separate views for the smaller devices.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Today I heard on the radio that Auto Makers anticipate a $2.5 Billion emerging revenue stream by enabling their vehicles with networking capabilities. I saw a commercial from Chevrolet this evening demonstrating a person starting their vehicle located miles away, and then doing other things like turning on the lights, unlocking the doors, rolling down the windows. I don’t remember exactly what the other things were…but you get the picture.
The ability to interact with devices that are not just computers has come. With many of the new Operating Systems available at a reasonable price, more and more devices are becoming capable of integration. Businesses are going to dream of new ways to take advantage of this capability.
Will you need to retool your skills? What are you going to have to learn to keep current with future needs? Perhaps distributed data stores, caching, synchronization, and new software patterns will be emerging to resolve new technical hurdles enabled by wireless internet.
What do you think? Is your job in jeopardy? How long will it be before the way we do things today becomes a thing of the past? How much of the tried and true programming models will continue into this new era?
Drop me a note with your thoughts, or ways the advancements of the internet have impact your world. Send your comments to btaylor@sswug.org.
New Top Ten Survey
Because of the huge response on the “Top Ten Bad Things to Do in a Database” was so popular, I had to break the survey up into different lists, development and operations. I’m starting work the second list for the “Top Ten Bad Things to Do in Database Operations.” Send me your experience of bad things to do when maintaining databases; this includes any engine. Some of the ideas that were submitted earlier were:
- Not defragmenting your indexes in a timely fashion
- Not maintaining appropriate indexes, too few or too many
- Not Reviewing database logs
- Not having and exercising a database recovery process
- No failover hardware available in a remote location
- Ad-hoc queries to fix data bugs
- Using Administrative credentials for tasks not requiring them
- Running database services under an account with inappropriate credentials
There are many more things that were added to this list. Why not add your favorites. Send your “Bad Things” to btaylor@sswug.org.
Cheers,
Ben
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