Author Archives: Colin Millerchip

Remote access

By Colin Millerchip | Published: October 26, 2009
In my discussions with DBAs, I’ve encountered a number of ways in which people stay in touch with what is happening on their systems when they’re away from their desktop PC. Obviously there’s the Blackberry, which seems to be the de-facto standard approach (although I hear that the default web browsing experience on the Blackberry [...]
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Business as ‘unusual’

By Colin Millerchip | Published: October 21, 2009
At a recent conference, an on-line retailer talked about a time when they had a problem with their website: the first they knew about it was when they discovered they’d taken no orders for 24 hours.  A few days later, an in-passing chat with Red Gate’s head of IT revealed that we’d recently had a [...]
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