Ten Tips to Keep Motivated Employees and Wow Your Customers

In many companies, work has become a place of disillusionment. Employees start with enthusiasm and creativity, but day after day they feel more and more helpless, as if they don't have any real choices anymore. Employees are overwhelmed, exhausted and bored. They feel like they have been shot down. Complaining and ridiculing others becomes the norm. The "romance" is gone. If this scenario sounds like…

How to Interact with SQL Server’s Data and Procedure Cache

As you have worked with SQL Server, you probably have run across the terms data cache and procedure cache, and may have wondered what exactly a cache was. SQL Server is configured to use a physical pool of memory on the server, and it will allocate the majority of this memory pool to hold data pages that have been read, along with the compiled execution…

A White Hat’s Penetration Test

This tutorial is more of a "case study", in which I describe a recent penetration test I performed. Due to the success of the penetration test (in a relatively very short time) I decided to share this experience with you.

Quality Control: E-newsletter Tips From The Pros

I've always tested my newsletter before hitting the "send" button. I test it by sending it to myself -- sometimes three or four times. I check to make sure the links work, that the line breaks are ok, and that I haven't misspelled anything.

Looking For Renewed Growth

Sometimes you have to take a step back before you move forward. Being in the high-tech industry, we've all experienced this. When the market slowed down, we all had to take a step back and readjust. Now, many of us are ready to move forward into growth mode. As we move into renewed growth, we face a new reality in the high-tech world, and especially…