At the end of February Coeo's Finance Chief Data Officers' Network met at the Gherkin in London for their quarterly roundtable meeting, based on the findings of our insurance whitepaper.
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Diversity is important. Increasingly, research shows that businesses with a diverse workforce take a more innovative approach, with those committed to gender, racial and ethnic diversity consistently outperforming those that don't.
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Coeo's monthly cyber security round up, detailing the latest SQL Server and Windows updates, as well as the latest news on data breaches.
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I keep hearing this question being asked. It's not well documented by Microsoft nor is it widely known, but we know it's associated with the way failover clustering interacts with the Azure networking infrastructure. My latest blog post attempts to unravel this mystery and explain why the behaviour is different between on-premises and Azure.
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The maximum number of databases you can have on a single SQL Server instance is 32,767, however using this many can create problems. This blog explains why it's important to avoid having thousands of databases on one instance.
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