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Validation!
Nice! RT @geekg0dd3ss: Was hired to take care of 9TB+ of SQL Server data and wrote a script that's in the server image of a major bank. — Microsoft Careers (@MicrosoftJobs) December 29, 2012 And how do I feel about that?
Generic Backups
I support developers. In our dev/QA environment, people add, delete, and change the recovery model of databases all the time without telling me. How do I keep track of which databases need to be backed up? I don't. I back up everything. Master has information on...
Thanksgiving Gluttony
Yum, Nagios gluttony! I'm donating Nagios monitoring to a couple of nonprofits, and this brings up how Nagios configurations grow. In short, you learn over time what you need to keep an eye on. For example: On one nonprofit, someone forgot to renew the domain...
Your Halloween Scare
South Carolina Department of Revenue hacked: South Carolina state officials announced Friday evening that the social security numbers of some 3.6 million state residents and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers were exposed in a data breach. The SSNs were stored...
The Broad Universe Sampler
It's got me and a lot of other awesome women in it, and it's FREE. Check out Broad Spectrum: The 2012 Broad Universe Fiction Sampler. My story starts: Last time this happened, I was Orpheus. Ethan was lost, pale, gone in a haze of Zoloft and Lithium and anorexia,...
What Faeries Did in the Renaissance
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.