Headline: State and county IT shops in California are hiring — but the work, expectations and hiring hurdles are changing fast
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Three high-profile public-sector IT recruitments announced in early September 2025 — at the California Department of Technology, the Franchise Tax Board and the...
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A significant vulnerability in one of the most widely used enterprise database communication protocols has prompted urgent action across the IT landscape, with Oracle’s patch for CVE-2025-30733 shining a spotlight on the persistent risks inherent in legacy technology. With databases lying at the...
In the ever-capricious world of SQL Server management, where every version number is both a badge and a potential migraine, Devart has dropped its latest update like a tactical nuke: dbForge Tools for SQL Server 7.1 is here, bringing support for SQL Server 2025, the SSMS 21 Preview, and the...
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have an availability group with two nodes with dynamic quorum. I want to simulate a split brain scenario. For this I have configured one inbound firewall rules per node. The rules each block the connection of the other node. I tested them by ping. The cluster manager detects network errors...