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Five Pervasive Myths About Older Software Developers I recently celebrated my 40th birthday. A friend joked to me, “Hey, guess that means you’re too old to program anymore!” I laughed on the outside, but it gave me pause. Age discrimination is nothing to laugh about in our field. COBOL guys faced this problem years [...] Computer Associates used to recommend excluding particular processes and directories from eTrust anti-virus scanning. This, I found, was very important with Microsoft SQL Server, as it would cause a significant performance hit. You would do this via setting the following registry keys, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\eTrustITM\CurrentVersion\Realtime szExcludeProcessNames
In my current job, I get to write data extracts. eg. extract data from an SQL database, using Microsoft Access as the front-end. Not my preferred tool, but it’s what I’ve got. Thought it would be useful to brush up on my T-SQL, so I purchased the book on the right. Best darn [...] SQL Server 2008 Backup Compression – by Varun Dhawan, over at MSDN blogs. It’s a useful option for saving space with backing up to disk, but I would disagree with the guy over tape backup savings. Some tape units have built-in hardware compression which already compresses the data being stored on tape. Which means there [...] |
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