SSWUGtv With Stephen Wynkoop Why is it so important to pay attention to the security of your data and services? Risk-management! Check out the security tips Townsend shares with Steve today! Watch the Show The Holy Grail of Software Development “Write Once/Run anywhere” has been a dream of software developers for decades. It’s like a Holy Grail or Eldorado…something really […]

Twitter, Big Data, Information Ownership… Have You Considered? I was reading this article about "Who owns that twitter account" – while it’s not old news, it is something you’ve probably seen as companies grapple with social media, transparency and media-active teams. But then, as I was mulling over that article, I tripped over another article headline, completely unrelated, talking about […]

Automating Database Change In order to efficiently make incremental database changes you need to have a few things in place. One of the requirements is a continuous integration and deployment capability. Today I present a link to a well-designed framework by Alexander Karmanov which he has published on the internet for your review at www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/an-incremental-database-development-and-deployment-framework.. We talked about this topic […]

Planning for Your Vacation – And Preventing Downtime Yesterday I talked about proper planning so your team is aware and able to respond if something happens to your systems while you’re away – this lets you actually *be* away, whether it’s for sleep or vacation. There is one other thing though that is a huge part of successful management of […]

That Time of Year Again You always hear about people having to do so much work pre- and post-vacation that it almost makes it seem like no vacation at all. It’s true of IT too – you have to put in place the pieces and parts that let you have a true vacation. If you just pick up and leave, […]

Windows and SQL Server Updates If we don’t apply Automatic Updates for Windows or SQL Server, what becomes a good practice. Our recent series on Automatic Updates was overwhelming to disable the engine. Robert wants to know what practices are being followed instead? Some companies don’t apply updates, or apply them haphazardly. I helped a company fix a bug that […]

Is Malware Detection (and Intrusion Detection) a Thing of the Past? I saw a really great article in Network World magazine (link here) that suggested that so much of malware now comes in through social engineering or valid (whitelisted) entry vectors that they think detection packages are a thing of the past in the not too distant future. Clearly social […]

SSWUGtv – Are Interns for You? With Stephen Wynkoop In today?s economy, many companies are investing in interns. This is a cost-effective way to temporarily solve their resource needs as well as get in an early bid on the upcoming talent. But what type of tasks and preparation is needed? Watch the Show Is SQL Injection Still an Issue? As […]

Keeping Up With the Upgrades It’s an interesting time (still) when it comes to updates and upgrades, new features and new capabilities with hosting providers. Today I’m specifically talking about Amazon’s RDS services, but the fact is that the entire field moves so fast that it’s difficult to stay on top of what’s available. One example from Amazon in particular […]

$$SWYNK$$ Immutable Objects Immutable objects are a technique in object oriented programming where the properties of an object are read only. If they need to be changed, this is done through the creation of a new object of the same type, having the desired changes. Perhaps some of the original values are retained and only a few are modified. Perhaps […]